Be brief, be pointed, let your matter stand lucid in order, solid and at hand spend not your words on trifles but condense strike with the mass of thought, not drops of sense press to the close with vigor, once begun, and leave - how hard the task
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Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.Joseph Story
The plain import of the clause is, that congress shall have all the incidental and instrumental powers, necessary and proper to carry into execution all the express powers. It neither enlarges any power specifically granted nor is it a grant of any new power to congress. But it is merely a declaration for the removal of all uncertainty, that the means of carrying into execution those, otherwise granted, are included in the grant.
Joseph Story
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.
Joseph Story
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.
Joseph Story
Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty, and Law.
Joseph Story
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