The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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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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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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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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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.
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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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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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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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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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