Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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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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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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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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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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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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