As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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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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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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 protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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