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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation…
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Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority…
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The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.
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[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating…
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The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
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Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in…
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We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we…
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.
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I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about…
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I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.
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Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks…
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Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because…
— Chinua Achebe
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
— John Adams
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Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
— Bertolt Brecht
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In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are…
— Noam Chomsky
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Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political)…
— Jonathan Rauch
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In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for…
— Edmund Burke
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It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total.…
— Sun Tzu
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In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly…
— James Madison
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Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is…
— James Madison
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The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees…
— James Madison
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