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 MADISONAnd 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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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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