Philosophy is common sense with big words.
JAMES MADISONAs a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
More James Madison Quotes
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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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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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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