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The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and…
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I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity…
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Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to…
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Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set…
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We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or…
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Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I…
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines…
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The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in…
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We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.
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Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.
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A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
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The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely,…
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I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put…
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Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.
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The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to…
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Never concede the putt that beats you.
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One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible.…
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When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
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If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world.…
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Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of…
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If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.
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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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Never concede to evil.... When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.
— David Farland
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I cannot agree with any astronomer who insists that all of these things are mirages, planets, clouds, or illusions. The majority of…
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