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Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies… — Alexander Hamilton
The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the… — Joseph Story
There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil… — Alexander Hamilton
The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It was… — George Washington
It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they… — Mercy Otis Warren
The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained - and it now… — George Washington
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within… — James Madison
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to… — Thomas Jefferson
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding. — William Wycherley
I dream that someday the United States will be on the side of the peasants in some civil war. I dream that we will be… — Michael Parenti
"The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing forests,… — Jonathon Porritt
If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall.… — Julian Bond
[M]y mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone. And while she may be proud of… — Julian Castro
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a… — Suzanne Vega
The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe.… — Otto von Bismarck
Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democrat Party and the black civil rights allies… — E.W. Jackson
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You… — Abraham Lincoln
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she… — Gertrude Stein
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil… — Walter Lippmann
I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two… — Alexis de Tocqueville
For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property… — Benjamin Disraeli
Frankly, I don't think you should perform in a plaza where thousands of Cubans have been subjected to the death penalty, by firing squad, including… — Unknown Author
So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos of secularism broadly… — Ramachandra Guha
Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and the decision whether… — Unknown Author
The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic. — Daniel Mendelsohn

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