The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right

Quote by James Madison

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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for...

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In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of...

The principles and modes of governments are too important to be disregarded by an inquisitive...

The principles and modes of governments are too important to be disregarded by an inquisitive...

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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the...

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every...

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every...

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue...

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue...

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted

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During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has...

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury,...

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Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the...

Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the...

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by...

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one...

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one...

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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at...

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

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A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the...

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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by...

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures...

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures...

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped...

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped...

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the...

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the...