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 MADISONThe capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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