The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
JAMES MADISONBy 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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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 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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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