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Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome… — Walter Lippmann
Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees? — Michel de Montaigne
A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the… — Mark Twain
In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of life, we have… — David Klinghoffer
China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they… — Li Peng
Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence. — John Dryden
Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals. — Herman Melville
Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion. — James Boswell
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as… — William H. Seward
Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it necessary… — Eugene V. Debs
I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak. — Joe Namath
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools. — Wilkie Collins
However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine… — John Polkinghorne
The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of… — Robert Trout
I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows… — Jennifer Weiner
Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. — Paul J. Meyer
You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity. — Criss Jami
Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is… — Criss Jami
It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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