Each 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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.James Madison
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny
James Madison
It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly federal and partly consolidated, and who would convert ours into one either wholly federal or wholly consolidated, in neither of which forms have individual rights, public order, and external safety, been all duly maintained, they aim a deadly blow at the last hope of true liberty on the face of the Earth.
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In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
James Madison
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
James Madison
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