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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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[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating…
— Fisher Ames
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The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its…
— Sri Aurobindo
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You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm…
— Seneca the Younger
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I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on…
— Grace Abbott
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We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
— Anne Sullivan Macy
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Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.
— Robert Thurman
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A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins…
— Augustus Hare
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She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold…
— Louis Bromfield
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I love you, Not only for what you are, But for what I am When I am with you. I love you…
— Kemis Khan
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