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The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and…
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I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity…
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Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to…
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Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set…
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We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or…
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Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I…
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines…
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The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in…
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We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.
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Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.
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A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
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The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely,…
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people.…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot…
— Russell Kirk
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Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.
— Ambrose
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Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion…
— Mark Salzman
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for…
— Coretta Scott King
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
— Pope John Paul II
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot…
— Rigoberta Menchu
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