Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
JAMES MADISONWhat 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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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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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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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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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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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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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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