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→Quotes: War, debts, and taxes
*"Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant."
*"Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant."
*"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rj1LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA492 1829-1836, By James Madison]</ref>
*"When we are considering the advantages that may result from an easy mode of naturalization, we ought also to consider the cautions necessary to guard against abuses. It is no doubt very desirable that we should hold out as many inducements as possible for the worthy part of mankind to come and settle amongst us, and throw their fortunes into a common lot with ours. But why is this desirable? Not merely to swell the catalogue of people. No, sir, it is to increase the wealth and strength of the community; and those who acquire the rights of citizenship, without adding to the strength or wealth of the community are not the people we are in want of."<ref>[http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_8_4_citizenships8.html House of Representatives, Rule of Naturalization], February 3rd-4th, 1790</ref>
*"When we are considering the advantages that may result from an easy mode of naturalization, we ought also to consider the cautions necessary to guard against abuses. It is no doubt very desirable that we should hold out as many inducements as possible for the worthy part of mankind to come and settle amongst us, and throw their fortunes into a common lot with ours. But why is this desirable? Not merely to swell the catalogue of people. No, sir, it is to increase the wealth and strength of the community; and those who acquire the rights of citizenship, without adding to the strength or wealth of the community are not the people we are in want of."<ref>[http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_8_4_citizenships8.html House of Representatives, Rule of Naturalization], February 3rd-4th, 1790</ref>