That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
JAMES MADISONEach 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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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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 pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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