James Madison: "The objects for the protection of which Government was instituted"

04/09/2012

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"It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated."

-- James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention, 1829

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Alexander Hamilton: An end to the rule of law is the end of liberty

03/30/2012

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"The instruments, by which [government] must act, are either the authority of the Laws or force. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; ... and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government, there is an end to liberty."

--Alexander Hamilton

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