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 MADISONIn 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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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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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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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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