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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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It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a…
— John Lanchester
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When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they'd need to keep the perimeter. Men…
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Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying…
— Charles Lindbergh
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My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid…
— John Phillips
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The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Power is of an encroaching nature.
— James Madison
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One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
— James K. Polk
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The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each…
— Dan Quayle
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Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing…
— Jonathan Lethem
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I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did,…
— Jamie Lee Curtis
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