To suppose that any form of government will secure... -James Madison

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

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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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While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck....
The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But i...
Being married to your best friend, that's happiness....
Me, I've been lucky to be good at happiness....
While I voted for Mr. Trump, my confidence remains in God for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness....
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime....
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, tha...
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and the...
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are....
Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your...