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Acquiring Property Quotes by James Madison
- [A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of…
- From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.
- The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.…
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- [A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for… — James Madison
- From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately… — James Madison
- The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a… — James Madison
- By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or… — Henry David Thoreau