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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor…
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with…
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and…
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than…
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as…
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The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending…
— John William Draper
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Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the…
— Joseph Dalton Hooker
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From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.
— Joseph Addison
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What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace.
— Thomas Bradwardine
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We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.
— J C Ryle
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If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long…
— Patrick Henry
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely…
— Brian Tracy
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