The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

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“on Democracies:"there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weak…”

“The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important i…”

“Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may…”