"Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors."
-James Madison
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"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."
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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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"Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other."
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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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"If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason."
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"In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people."
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"Art must unquestionably have a social value that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind."
-Rockwell Kent
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"It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other."
-Oliver Evans
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-Sylvia Sidney
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"If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication."
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"To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality."
-Cliff Shaw
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