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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
JAMES MADISON

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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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