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.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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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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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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 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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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