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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 sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most…
— J. G. Holland
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The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust:…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation…
— Samuel Johnson
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The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.
— Sun Tzu
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The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence…
— Florence Nightingale
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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
— John Keats
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The ten days we passed there [at Ta Chêng Tzu], we were the song of the drunkard and the jest of the…
— James Gilmour
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If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the…
— Joseph Addison
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