Madison Township

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    The essence of government is power, and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)