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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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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. – James Madison

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Trust
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War
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The mothers battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. – Adrienne Rich

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War

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We werent punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities we killed civilians. Thats war. And this is war. – Ann Coulter

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War

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. – Virginia Woolf

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War

Weve got to keep an eye on the battle that we face – a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And theres only one way to beat and win that war – the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight. – James P. Hoffa

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War

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Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. – Nikos Kazantzakis

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Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution. – Jay Leno

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My mom obviously had a problem. – Dave Pelzer

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There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic. – Susan Orlean

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