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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military…
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit…
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common…
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that…
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Style is the image of character.
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.…
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'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image…
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So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief…
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The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never…
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In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.
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Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the…
— James Madison
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I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is…
— James Madison
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No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute…
— Thomas Paine
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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
— Baron de Montesquieu
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EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the…
— Ruhollah Khomeini
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The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
— Edward Gibbon
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Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.
— Millard Fillmore
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Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a…
— Laurence Tribe
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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and…
— John Locke
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