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Quote by James Madison
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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Government
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. – James Madison

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power
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. – James Madison

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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters. – Edward Gibbon

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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. – Barry Goldwater

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War

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight. – Madeleine Albright

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War

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back. – Gertrude Stein

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I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. – Robert Indiana

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I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. – Sparky Anderson

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Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who youre working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience. – Martin Scorsese

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My mother kept asking me, When are you going to do a gospel album? And Ive always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more. – Alan Jackson

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