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- All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
- From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The…
- ...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Koran is, perpetual…
- America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows…
- I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the…
- It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those…
- The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.
- There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second…
- The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
- In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow…
- I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the…
- All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle…
- The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life…
- The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be…
- And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of order, the Fountain of justice, and the Protector, in all ages of the…
- The political system of the United States is essentially extra-European. To stand in firm and cautious independence of all entanglement in the European system has…
- So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation…
- The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls…
- The great interests of an agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing nation are so linked in union together that no permanent cause of prosperity to one of…
- In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of those splendid triumphs which had…
- The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by…
- America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
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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
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle