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• A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them. — H. L. Mencken
• It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment — Henri Bergson
• The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed… — Elizabeth S. Anderson
• Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the… — Alexander Hamilton
• The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular… — Alexander Hamilton
• It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication… — James Madison
• It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to… — Alexander Hamilton
• Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions… — Nicolaus Copernicus
• The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense of centralized… — John Turner

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