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 MADISONThe advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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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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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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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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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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