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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
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It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it…
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The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the…
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If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a…
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It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first…
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
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A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
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War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
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The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.
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The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war,…
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True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary…
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The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is…
— Richard Henry Lee
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Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of…
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Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct
— Samuel Johnson
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By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle…
— William Penn
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Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also…
— George Orwell
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He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him…
— William Godwin
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