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 MADISONLearned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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