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- Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous…
- We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by…
- In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and…
- The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular, to…
- Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to…
- Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the…
- The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to…
- It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication of some defect…
- Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three…
- It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons,…
- The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their connections of blood,…
- Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared…
- Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken…
- If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be,…
- It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part…
- [T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the…
- I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great, essential right. I…
- The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were…
- In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance
- Let the influx of money be ever so great, if there be no confidence, property will sink in value... The circulation of confidence is better…
- They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of…
- The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more…
- There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or…
- It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people,…
- The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong