The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
JAMES MADISONAs 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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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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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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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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