“It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.”

“But we forget that government was also created to act and make decisions.”

“Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.”

“Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.”

“For Madison, on the other hand, “a Public Debt is a Public curse,” and “in a Representative Government greater than in any other.”26”

“I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.”