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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
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It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it…
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The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the…
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If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a…
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It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first…
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
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A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
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War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
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The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.
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The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war,…
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
— Teresa of Avila
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Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as…
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[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and…
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Government is like fire. If it is kept within bounds and under the control of the people, it contributes to the welfare…
— Harold Stassen
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within…
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If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason…
— C.S. Lewis
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Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable…
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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Everybody said she was a winner, nobody knew the secret kept within her, starving for perfection, hating her reflection.
— Broken Soul
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