[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place;… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain… — William Magee Copy Share Image
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man,… — Randy Weber Copy Share Image
France has been struck on the day of her national holiday - the 14th of July, Bastille Day - the symbol of… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross,… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
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What are you going to call the place?" "I haven't decided yet. Carrington wants to call it Clippety-Do-Da or Hairway to Heaven… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
If you're playing a fictional character, you can create a character, you can sort of take certain liberties. And when you're playing… — Donnie Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
We think it would be wise in you to try to git [sic] influence by offering to print a paper in favor… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
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Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think it is appropriate that we pay tribute to this great constitutional principle which is enshrined in the First Amendment of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force;… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
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The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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Trump's one liberal policy seems to be his desire to pump more funding into mental health - which I've taken the liberty… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
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![“[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by revoking the liberty which they now enjoy, would be the same species of folly which has dishonoured and depopulated flourishing kingdoms.” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c15/james-madison-373_church_the-proposed-establishment-will-have-a-t_1968416.png)
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