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If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madi

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. – James Madison

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The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. – James Madison

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Government
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Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. – James Madison

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Government
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? – James Madison

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Learning
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. – John F. Kennedy, 1961

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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Well hath he been called one of the architects of civilization. – Newell Dwight Hillis

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If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. – Hans A. Bethe

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