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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a…
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the…
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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor…
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit…
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with…
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is…
— Khalil Gibran
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I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy…
— George Washington
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
— William Cowper
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To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy…
— William Blake
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It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to…
— Samuel West
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Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do…
— Wayne D. Dosick
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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
— John Gay
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The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I…
— John Adams
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I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not. I am the strong arm of…
— Brent Weeks
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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
— Aberjhani
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The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
— John Gay
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And what does the lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God…
— Bible
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