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 MADISONI 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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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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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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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 advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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