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- The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion
- We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition,…
- The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their…
- I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.
- The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state…
- The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.
- I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United…
- Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended…
- Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer,…
- [M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply…
- My ardent desire is, and my aim has been . . . to comply strictly with all our engagements foreign and domestic; but to keep…
- I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed to…
- The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained - and it now…
- Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.
- The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.
- It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in forming…
- Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn…
- They (the Jews) work more effectively against us, than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great…
- What is most important of this grand experiment, the United States? Not the election of the first president but the election of its second president.…
- Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the…
- The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any…
- I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection ... that…
- May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose Providential agency…
- There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.
- But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of fraud, we shall…
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- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur