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- Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.
- While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it…
- The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches…
- As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading…
- The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
- A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]
- Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree…
- Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should…
- A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
- Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
- When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
- It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
- If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
- I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
- Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a…
- The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
- When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to…
- Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
- The dead should not rule the living
- It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice
- Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
- By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by…
- To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for…
- That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place…
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- 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
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
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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
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- 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
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe