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The 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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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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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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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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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 Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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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 personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
JAMES MADISON

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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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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 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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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