“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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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
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.
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
