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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…
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[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the…
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One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an…
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by…
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Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill…
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Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.
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Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their…
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Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or…
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[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress;…
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So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state…
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The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect…
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In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government.…
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What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost…
— Albert Einstein
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with…
— Robert Burns
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Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or…
— Joseph Story
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That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp…
— Frederick Jackson Turner
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Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we…
— John Stuart Mill
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Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as…
— Anne Lamott
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Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within…
— William Hazlitt
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Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.
— Carl Jung
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A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer…
— George Bernard Shaw
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And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having…
— Samuel Johnson
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