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there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the… — James Madison
The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated… — Thomas Jefferson
Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either… — Joseph Story
The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial, speaks for itself.… — Alexander Hamilton
We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it,… — Benjamin Franklin
It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent… — Thomas Jefferson
But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of… — Alexander Hamilton
Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or… — Steven Pressfield
If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity. — Grover Cleveland
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in… — Robert Southey
By the power invested in me by the state of New York and the Universal Life Church, I now pronounce you husband and husband. You… — Conan O'Brien
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… — George Washington
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death.… — H. L. Mencken
If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be… — Oliver Goldsmith
In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences.… — Unknown Author
Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in… — Jean Baudrillard
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in… — Susan Sontag
If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of… — Richard M. Nixon
If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands… — Desiderius Erasmus
Songwriting is ... all about intuition - this thing pops into your head for a reason and it's up to you to follow it. It's… — Jim James
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. — Ambrose Bierce

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