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.
JAMES MADISONAmerica was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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