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The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes,…
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The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too…
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No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend…
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No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend…
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It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship…
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[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the…
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One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an…
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by…
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Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill…
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Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.
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Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their…
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Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or…
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[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress;…
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So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state…
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The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect…
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In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government.…
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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
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
— Hannah Arendt
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has…
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
— Aristotle
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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
— Aristotle
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
— Aristotle
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
— Aristotle
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things…
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Most people would rather give than get affection.
— Aristotle
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue…
— Aristotle
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My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.
— J. J. Abrams
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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
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