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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
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The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless,…
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Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for…
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I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which…
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Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
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Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
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All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.
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The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces…
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The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.
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I'd rather be right than President.
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An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
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A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers,…
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The gift of creating new life needs to be, once again, welcomed and honoured as one of the most mysterious of human…
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Every man possesses that which is according to the image of God, for the gifts of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29). But…
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Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive,…
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Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
— Henry Clay
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is…
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Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers…
— Ron Wyden
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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of…
— Hugh Black
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If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we must in…
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