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Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the…
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may…
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A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
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...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...
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There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that…
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Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the…
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over…
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The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide…
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they…
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The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.
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The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
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Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
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The first principle of self-love is that you are not for sale.
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Note that charity is given only to those who seek it, only to those who earnestly pray for it, only to those…
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The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its…
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To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in…
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Fasting is the first principle of medicine.
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The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always…
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First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.
— Marie Curie
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It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening,…
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