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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
JAMES MADISON

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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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