Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one. - James Madison

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And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano. . . and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.

James Madison

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

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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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But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain.

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Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

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That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest.

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Good conscience is the most valuable asset of all!

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And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano. . . and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.

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I think everybody out there on the American team is out of their element. That's not an excuse. That's the way it is. It's early in the spring. A lot of guys are not as (locked-in) as they could be.

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