"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."
-James Madison
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"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."
-James Madison
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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."
-James Madison
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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."
-James Madison
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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."
-James Madison
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-Michael Chertoff
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"You are forever alone."
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"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
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"For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe."
-John Buchanan Robinson
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