As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
JAMES MADISONThe rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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 truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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