I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
JAMES MADISONWherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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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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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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