The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
JAMES MADISONThe advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true 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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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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