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- Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any…
- It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens…
- The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone…
- We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of…
- Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.
- Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous…
- Conscience is the most sacred of all property.
- Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.…
- It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority. Distant as…
- 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,…
- It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will…
- The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden…
- This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made,…
- On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in…
- In all the co-temporary discussions and comments, which the Constitution underwent, it was constantly justified and recommended on the ground, that the powers not given…
- It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly…
- In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and…
- Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary…
- The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them, and…
- It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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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
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide