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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equall

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. – James Madison

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. – James Madison

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Freedom
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James Madison
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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. – James Madison

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It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell – “voluntarily” sell – himself every day and hour to the “beast of property.” – Johann Most, The Beast of Property

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Property

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature. – Herbert Spencer

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Property

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. – Charles Dudley Warner

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Property

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. – Potter Stewart

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Property

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Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved. – Herbert Croly

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