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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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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine,…
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs…
— Saint Basil
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In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the…
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Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
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Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not…
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Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
— Edward Bond
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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
— Victor Hugo
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And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world for what…
— George McGovern
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So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another…
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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.
— Baruch Spinoza
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The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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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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