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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Against Danger Defense Foreign Historical Home Instrument Mean Tyranny
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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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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