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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will gener

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. – James Madison

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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. – James Madison

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Government
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Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. – James Madison

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Home
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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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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. – Alice Walker

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It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. – Murray Rothbard

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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. – Joseph Conrad

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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. – Abigail Adams

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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. – Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912

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Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual. – Nelson Mandela

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