If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
JAMES MADISONPhilosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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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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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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