The truth is that all men having power ought to be... -James Madison

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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

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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....
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....
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of ...
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next plac...
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted....
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or s...
If men were angels, no government would be necessary....
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world....
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad....
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home....

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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot ...
The Beatles were from Liverpool. It's a hard town. The Stones weren't the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men....
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good....
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God ...
I've always believed that no officer's life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear... Offic...
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent....
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not ...
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men....
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so....
Women may fall when there's no strength in men....