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The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and…
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I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity…
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Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to…
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Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set…
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We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or…
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Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I…
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines…
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The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in…
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We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.
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Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.
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A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
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The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely,…
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When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak…
— Sun Tzu
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Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general…
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When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have…
— John Shelby Spong
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Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe.
— Lord Byron
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They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by…
— Samuel Johnson
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The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so…
— H. L. Mencken
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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
— John Milton
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The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut…
— Kevin Rudd
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You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout…
— Andrew Jackson
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You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out.…
— Andrew Jackson
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About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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If I were, to pick out the most valuable personal traits of a fighter pilot, aggressiveness would rate high on the list.…
— Unknown Author
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