"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.“

-James Madison

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"Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors."

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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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"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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"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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"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits."

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"If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason."

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"I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids."

-Chris O'Donnell

"My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room."

-Sherman Alexie

"To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry."

-Malcolm Turnbull

"At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour."

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"We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing."

-Melinda Gates