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- 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.…
- If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of…
- The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more…
- Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused.
- The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.
- Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America.
- I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinates from office; it will make him, in a peculiar…
- WHEN THE BALL IS COMING AT 100 MPH FROM PITCHER THERES NOTHING SOFT ABOUT THAT
- Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will…
- Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted,…
- The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe…
- 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…
- 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…
- War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
- 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 diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.…
- 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…
- If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens…
- The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
- Power must be in the hands of the wealth of the nation, those who have sympathy for property owners and their rights, and who understand…
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