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If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as… — Dick Thornburgh
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to… — James M. Barrie
Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will… — Sterling W Sill
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and… — Thomas Jefferson
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature… — James G. Frazer
Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about… — Densey Clyne
Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed… — Pope John XXIII
These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or to define the extent and variety of national exigencies, and the… — Alexander Hamilton
To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and… — James Madison
On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in… — James Madison
I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more material to observe,… — James Madison
In all the co-temporary discussions and comments, which the Constitution underwent, it was constantly justified and recommended on the ground, that the powers not given… — James Madison
The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all… — Alexander Hamilton
The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution;… — James Madison
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand:… — George Washington
It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and… — Alexander Hamilton
The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to its parts; and… — Alexander Hamilton
This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the… — George Washington

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