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 MADISONWhere an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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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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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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