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[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

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James Madison
Age: 85 †
Born: 1751
Born: March 16
Died: 1836
Died: June 28
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In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.
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The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences formed a line of discrimination.
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The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion.
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The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.
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Resistance to tyranny is service to God.
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