The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
JAMES MADISONWar contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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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 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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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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 means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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