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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
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It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it…
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The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the…
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If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a…
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It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first…
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
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A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
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War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
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The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.
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The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war,…
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My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.
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Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT…
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The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of…
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A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum…
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I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just…
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Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of…
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here,…
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Helmholtz is not a philosopher in the exclusive sense, as Kant, Hegel, Mansel are philosophers, but one who prosecutes physics and physiology,…
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