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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 an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. -- James Madison
Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving. -- Christina Romer
Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must not be carried out in ways that erode due process, rule of law and the protection of innocent citizens' political and civil rights. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion. -- Stewart Dalzell
A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it. -- James Madison
It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition, or protection from the Government. -- Malcolm X

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