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 MADISONPhilosophy is common sense with big words.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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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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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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 advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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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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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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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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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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