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 MADISONNo nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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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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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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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 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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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