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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation…
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Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority…
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The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.
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[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating…
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The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
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Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in…
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We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we…
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.
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I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about…
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I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.
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Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks…
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Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
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The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what…
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As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.
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The early industrialists were for the most part men who had their origin in the same social strata from which their workers…
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I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about…
— Fisher Ames
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I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and…
— James Denton
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The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming,…
— Plato
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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to…
— Karl Popper
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A modest, godly woman will dress modestly. . . The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her…
— Ellen G. White
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You wonderful girls, dress modestly and keep yourselves physically clean. Be cheerful and happy. Be positive about life. Then the Holy Spirit…
— F. Melvin Hammond
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Every young woman should dress well, that is, neatly, tastefully, modestly, whether she be rich or poor. Conspicuous dressing is vulgar. True…
— J.R. Miller
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