Joseph Story Quotes

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• It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and…
• [I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the especial duty of…
• One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep…
• The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is…
• Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes…
• Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.
• Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity,…
• Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise…
• [The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is…
• So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented;…
• The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the…
• In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist…
• The true test is, whether the object be of a local character, and local use; or, whether it be of general benefit to the states.…
• The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him for all our…
• Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them.…
• How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children…
• In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they…
• It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.
• It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.
• The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes,…

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