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It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship…
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[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the…
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One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an…
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by…
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Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill…
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Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.
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Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their…
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Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or…
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[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress;…
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So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state…
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The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect…
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In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government.…
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by…
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On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try…
— Sun Tzu
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To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
— Faith Baldwin
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Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself…
— Jack Heffron
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It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires…
— Charles Duhigg
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Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
— Tacitus
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The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is…
— Wendy Lesser
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Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile,…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what…
— Kenny Smith
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