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The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must…
— Alexander Hamilton
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At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that…
— James Madison
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Either you will control your government, or government will control you.
— Ronald Reagan
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The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its…
— George Washington
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Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.
— Ben Shahn
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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he…
— James Russell Lowell
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A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.
— Phil McGraw
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The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience…
— Alexander Hamilton
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there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the…
— James Madison
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And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either…
— Joseph Story
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We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be too…
— Alexander Hamilton
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[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established .…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In difficult circumstances, teams either separate or come closer together, it's as simple as that
— Ron Dennis
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I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what…
— Montgomery Clift
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Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear?…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know…
— John Steinbeck
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or…
— Laozi
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