The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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