All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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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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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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