Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
JAMES MADISONIf Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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