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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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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one…
— Samuel Butler
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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
— Stokely Carmichael
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they…
— Herbert Spencer
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During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one…
— Roderick Murchison
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The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop…
— Elias Canetti
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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols…
— John B. S. Haldane
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[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile…
— Unknown Author
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Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less,…
— Robert Stawell Ball
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