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- The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone…
- The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as…
- Conscience is the most sacred of all property.
- The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most…
- Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.…
- We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised…
- It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly by our own,…
- The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little which it needs…
- There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant…
- How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of…
- The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.
- I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive…
- Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the…
- There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the authoritative origin and…
- The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as…
- At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that…
- The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps,…
- In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty.…
- If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government be…
- The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their connections of blood,…
- [Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a…
- [T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without…
- The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be…
- Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sectEqual…
- Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the young men at…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster