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James Madison

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

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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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"Some enemies are part and parcel of our lives, we cannot destroy them without risking our own survival."

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"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

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"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons."

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"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."

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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

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"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

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"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."

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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."

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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?"
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"The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science."
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"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
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"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."
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"In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."
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"Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done."
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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."
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"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."
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"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
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