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 capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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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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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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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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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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