The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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 circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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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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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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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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