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Quote by James Madison
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to b

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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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. – James Madison

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Government
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James Madison
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. – James Madison

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Happiness
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James Madison
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. – James Madison

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power
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War
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But when will our leaders learn – war is not the answer. – Helen Thomas

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War

All the arms we need are for hugging. – Author Unknown

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War

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you dont learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins. – King Abdullah II

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War

I can tell you this: If Im ever in a position to call the shots, Im not going to rush to send somebody elses kids into a war. – George H. W. Bush

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War

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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. – William Hazlitt

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The busy have no time for tears. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Sadness

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. – John Stuart Mill

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Courage

Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far. – Jean Cocteau

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