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 MADISONWar 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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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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 long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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