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 MADISONThe Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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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 essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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As 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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