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False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the… — Frederick William Robertson
To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and… — James Madison
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise… — Joseph Story
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… — James Madison
That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for… — Benjamin Franklin
How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children… — Joseph Story
We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states] would be introduced… — James Madison
Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole… — James Madison
There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common object that does… — Alexander Hamilton
Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one… — George Washington
As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights, derive… — John Dickinson
Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of God and nature,… — James Otis
Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a… — Alexander Hamilton
The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good. — Luc de Clapiers
Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. — James F. Cooper
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is… — Lewis Thomas
Common Lisp is politics, not art. — Scott Fahlman
Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common… — Thomas Ernest Hulme
And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than… — John F. Kennedy

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