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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation…
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Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority…
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The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.
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[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating…
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The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
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Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in…
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We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we…
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.
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I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about…
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I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.
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Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks…
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Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught…
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The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is…
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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
— Edward Albee
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I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.
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I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it…
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When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times,…
— Bobby Jones
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The more things we can get kids to do correctly off the court, the more they will do correctly on the court.
— Unknown Author
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A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.
— M.F.K. Fisher
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It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and…
— Francis Crick
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If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.
— Wolfgang Pauli
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Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own…
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