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→Quotes: Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
*"When we are considering the advantages that may result from an easy mode of naturalization, we ought also to consider the cautions necessary to guard against abuses. It is no doubt very desirable that we should hold out as many inducements as possible for the worthy part of mankind to come and settle amongst us, and throw their fortunes into a common lot with ours. But why is this desirable? Not merely to swell the catalogue of people. No, sir, it is to increase the wealth and strength of the community; and those who acquire the rights of citizenship, without adding to the strength or wealth of the community are not the people we are in want of."<ref>[http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_8_4_citizenships8.html House of Representatives, Rule of Naturalization], February 3rd-4th, 1790</ref>
*"When we are considering the advantages that may result from an easy mode of naturalization, we ought also to consider the cautions necessary to guard against abuses. It is no doubt very desirable that we should hold out as many inducements as possible for the worthy part of mankind to come and settle amongst us, and throw their fortunes into a common lot with ours. But why is this desirable? Not merely to swell the catalogue of people. No, sir, it is to increase the wealth and strength of the community; and those who acquire the rights of citizenship, without adding to the strength or wealth of the community are not the people we are in want of."<ref>[http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_8_4_citizenships8.html House of Representatives, Rule of Naturalization], February 3rd-4th, 1790</ref>
*"Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred." - Federalist 20
* "In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=w0ggAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA24 God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson]</ref>
* "In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=w0ggAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA24 God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson]</ref>