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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation…
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Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority…
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The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.
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[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating…
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The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
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Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in…
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We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we…
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.
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I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about…
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I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.
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Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks…
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Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
— Anton Chekhov
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
— Thomas Huxley
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Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown…
— Carl Linnaeus
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Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will…
— Ayn Rand
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The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded…
— Anaxagoras
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One never perishes through anybody but oneself.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties…
— Unknown Author
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One wears one's mind out in study, and yet has more mind with which to study. One gives away one's heart in…
— Milton Steinberg
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Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.
— George Orwell
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From the Word of God I gather that damnation is all of man, from top to bottom, and salvation is all of…
— Charles Spurgeon
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We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.
— Robert Browning
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