The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
JAMES MADISONThe personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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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 executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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