William Paterson Quotes

• Cuando gobiernan los justos, el pueblo se alegra; cuando gobiernan los impíos, el pueblo gime.

  William Paterson

  Law, People, Voting

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• La Constitución es el origen y la medida de la autoridad legislativa. Dice a los legisladores, hasta aquí llegaréis y no más lejos. Ni una partícula de ella debe ser sacudida; ni un guijarro de ella debe ser removido.

  William Paterson

  Law, Political, Measurement

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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

  War, President, Doe

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• The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.

  William Paterson

  Historical, Banking, Credit

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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

  Men, Rights, Community

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