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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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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
— Hannah Arendt
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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
— Hannah Arendt
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As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.
— J. J. Abrams
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of…
— Aristophanes
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We make war that we may live in peace.
— Aristotle
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have…
— Karen Armstrong
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These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of…
— William Henry Ashley
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
— Isaac Asimov
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only…
— Isaac Asimov
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents…
— Julian Assange
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What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend…
— Julian Assange
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War is what happens when language fails.
— Margaret Atwood
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