It will be of little avail to the people

“The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from
the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.”
― Alexander Hamilton

“Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

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

“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;”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

“The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion.”
― Alexander Hamilton

“The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.”
― Alexander Hamilton, Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Index