The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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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 circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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