Quote by James Madison
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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. – James Madison

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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. – James Madison

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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. – James Madison

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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. – Charles de Gaulle

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. – Margaret Thatcher

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If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG. – Jack Nicholson

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