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- American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those…
- The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . . . . Learned…
- It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly by our own,…
- There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest,…
- A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it,…
- Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which…
- Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.
- I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many means of counteracting…
- Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation. No…
- Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary for the more…
- If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will…
- The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from…
- The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning,…
- It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part…
- [T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the…
- Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite…
- It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and…
- Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two of them an…
- The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be…
- Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression.
- [A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a…
- Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself is levelled against…
- ... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant…
- Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to be so constituted…
- The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of…
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange