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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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All Enemy Comprise Develop Dread Liberty Most Perhaps Public
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.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Abuse Endangered Liberty Power
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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Ambition Counteract Made
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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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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