"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place."
"may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
"If an unworthy man be continued in office by an unworthy President, the House of Representatives can at any time impeach him and the Senate can remove him whether the President chooses or not."
"Monopolies are sacrifices of the many to the few, where the power is in the few, it is natural for them to sacrifice the many to their own penalties and corruptions."
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will..."
"This power over the purse may in fact be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any Constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people for obtaining a redress of e..."
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
"Those who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives."
"A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who me..."
"Every Republican in Congress, and more importantly, every Republican on the Supreme Court seems to believe that to honor a sentence written by James Madison in 1789, children must die."
"As James Madison nicely put it tyranny arises, 'On some favorable emergency'."
"Charity is no part of the duty of government."