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.
JAMES MADISONEach 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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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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And 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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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 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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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