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 MADISONWhat 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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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