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The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.
William Paterson / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Banking
Credit
Historical
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When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.
William Paterson / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Law
People
Voting
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Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congress. . . . It is the exclusive province of Congress to change a state of peace into a state of war.
William Paterson / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
War
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President
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The Constitution is the origin and measure of legislative authority. It says to legislators, thus far ye shall go and no farther. Not a particle of it should be shaken; not a pebble of it should be removed.
William Paterson / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Law
Measurement
Political
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It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights of man. Men have a sense of property: Property is necessary to their subsistence, and correspondent to their natural wants and desires; its security was one of the objects, that induced them to unite in society. No man would become a member of a community, in which he could not enjoy the fruits of his honest labour and industry.
William Paterson / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Community
Rights
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