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"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
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"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."
"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."
"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."
"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
"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."
"By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt."
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
"As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights."
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"Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one's enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else."
"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."
"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
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