It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
JAMES MADISON
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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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.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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