Best Domestic Wisdom
619 Domestic quotes by 503 unique authors
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Marriage is for committed lovers, not hostages. Marriage is a sacred relationship created for two people who complete each other spiritually. While it requires sacrificial…
— Rob Jackson
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There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.
— Robert M. T. Hunter
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The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.
— John C. Calhoun
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Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever…
— James Henry Hammond
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Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.
— John Dingell
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I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive…
— Chuck Grassley
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The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of…
— Gerda Lerner
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Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic -- or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse…
— Irving Kristol
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I have no objection to the concept of domestic partnership.
— Rudy Giuliani
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by rulers. The right…
— Joseph Story
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With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the…
— Jo Ann Emerson
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There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the…
— August Kleinzahler
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I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just…
— Sufjan Stevens
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I will keep playing domestic cricket. I feel I am good enough to get back into the Indian team, and playing domestic cricket is the…
— Sourav Ganguly
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I want to make all Europe and America know it – I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the…
— Daniel O'Connell
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Bill Clinton is like a lot of white politicians. They eat soul food, they party with black women, they play the saxophone, but when it…
— Sister Souljah
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It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it…
— Beryl Markham
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Unless we are prepared to search our souls to discover what to say, and then how to say it effectively, we cannot expect to deal…
— Unknown Author
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No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which…
— Calvin Coolidge
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It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed…
— Bonnie Jo Campbell
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Unlike national markets, which tend to be supported by domestic regulatory and political institutions, global markets are only 'weakly embedded'. There is no global lender…
— Dani Rodrik
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A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not secure…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.
— Francis Galton
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Stable energy prices and enhanced national security will only come when we increase domestic energy resources, which was accomplished today with the opening of ANWR.
— Kenny Marchant
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The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.
— Albert J. Nock
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