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The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and…
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I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity…
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Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to…
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Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set…
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We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or…
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Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I…
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines…
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The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in…
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We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.
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Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.
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A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
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The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely,…
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He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
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Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
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The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating…
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intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The…
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Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of…
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and…
— William Cowper
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You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel…
— William Booth
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
— William Hazlitt
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The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to…
— James Madison
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No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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