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- No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage
- Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the…
- In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first…
- Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.
- Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
- Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing…
- I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken…
- To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer,…
- But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that…
- It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be to throw open…
- Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a…
- We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable…
- We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.
- A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at…
- Sir, no nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been given…
- To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.
- I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would…
- Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.
- No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.
- Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest…
- No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity
- It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.
- If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without…
- The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
- MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes…
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- My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation. — Michele Bachmann
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- Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. — Honore de Balzac
- The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. — Francis Bacon
- Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! — Honore de Balzac