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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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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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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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Continue Excercise Fallible Hope Liberty Long Reason
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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