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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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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation…
— Fisher Ames
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Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of…
— Mother Teresa
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Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
— George Meredith
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A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose should be…
— William Shakespeare
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Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women,…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a…
— Thomas Jefferson
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How beautiful she is, Our Lady of compassion! How dear! How utterly unselfish! How filled with joy for Him - and us…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction,…
— Albert Lutuli
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