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The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and…
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I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity…
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Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to…
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Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set…
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We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or…
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Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I…
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines…
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The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in…
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We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.
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Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.
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A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
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The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely,…
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Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. What?s wrong with red, white and blue, USA Today? This rainbow…
— Stephen Colbert
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History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline.…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.
— Ann Coulter
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That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
— Jack Valenti
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It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country,…
— Lee Atwater
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Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods…
— Russell Kirk
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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real…
— Samuel L. Jackson
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I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay…
— Tina Fey
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With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew…
— Libba Bray
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Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. Whats wrong with red, white and blue, USA Today? This rainbow…
— Stephen Colbert
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