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.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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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 rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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 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 Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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