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- The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other…
- He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and…
- I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries…
- I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.
- The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one…
- Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of…
- Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
- 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…
- To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer,…
- If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should…
- It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the…
- It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be to throw open…
- Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a…
- Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.
- On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that…
- Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to…
- The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain…
- The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always…
- It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies,…
- I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in…
- Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.
- Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
- The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into…
- There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and…
- I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of…
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I… — J. J. Abrams
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- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
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- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
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- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
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