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It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship…
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[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the…
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One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an…
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by…
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Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill…
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Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.
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Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their…
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Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or…
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[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress;…
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So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state…
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The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect…
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In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government.…
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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our…
— Henri Bergson
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Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each…
— Hugo Black
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Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural…
— Jacques Monod
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Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The…
— George Eliot
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Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our…
— Marcel Proust
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Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses…
— Roderick Murchison
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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour,…
— Gordon W. Allport
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Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it…
— Charles Lyell
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There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from…
— Charles Lyell
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We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which…
— Charles Darwin
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange.…
— Victor Hugo
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