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— James Madison"Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union."
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When you have a liberal class that no longer functions, when those people who traditionally defend and care about a civil society no longer do so, then you cede power to very frightening, deformed figures, all of which we are watching leap up around the fringes of our political establishment - this lunatic fringe, which has largely taken over the Republican Party.
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