Harlow Giles Unger Quote

And to Virginia governor Edmund Randolph, who also favored a bill of rights, he explained, The human race is too apt to rush from one extreme to another.… For now, the cry is power; give Congress power, without reflecting that every free nation that hath ever existed has lost its liberty by the same rash impatience and want of necessary caution.

Harlow Giles Unger

And to Virginia governor Edmund Randolph, who also favored a bill of rights, he explained, The human race is too apt to rush from one extreme to another.… For now, the cry is power; give Congress power, without reflecting that every free nation that hath ever existed has lost its liberty by the same rash impatience and want of necessary caution.

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About Harlow Giles Unger

Harlow Giles Unger (; born August 3, 1931) is an American author and historian, as well as a journalist, broadcaster, and educator. He is the author of many books, including the three-volume Encyclopedia of American Education.