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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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The Petition of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge, John Hartwell Cocke, and Robert Taylor the Rector…
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The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of…
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People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of…
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The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these…
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As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative…
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Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or…
— Diane Wood
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It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, We…
— Ronald Reagan
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The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that…
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