I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
JAMES MADISON
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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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 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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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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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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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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