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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a…
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the…
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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor…
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit…
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with…
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand…
— Brother Lawrence
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Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death.…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness
— Lisa Bonet
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God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which…
— Jerry Bridges
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As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or…
— Jack Kornfield
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In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed.
— Gerald Massey
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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
— Jojo Moyes
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Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh!…
— Therese of Lisieux
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If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God…
— Maximus the Confessor
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God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development.
— Max Lucado
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