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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, w

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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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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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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When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. – Winston Churchill

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World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. – Stephen Ambrose

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