It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
JAMES MADISONAnd I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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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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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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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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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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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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