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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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Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural…
— Joseph Story
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For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at…
— Gwynne Dyer
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I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
— Tom McClintock
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In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant…
— Michelle Malkin
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With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to…
— Charles Darwin
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
— Sally Quinn
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If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic…
— William Greider
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
— Denis Diderot
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Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.
— Virginia Woolf
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Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that…
— James A. Michener
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There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have…
— Walter Lippmann
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Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
— Tom McClintock
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