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 MADISONReligion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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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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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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 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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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The 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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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The 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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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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