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Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name… — Noah Webster
Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and… — Mark Twain
Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that… — Brian Tracy
The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there… — C.S. Lewis
The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established… — Charles Grandison Finney
To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and… — James Madison
So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented;… — Joseph Story
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of… — James Madison
The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving… — James Madison
The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in… — Alexander Hamilton
THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding… — William Blackstone
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of… — Alexander Hamilton
Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they contribute essentially to rendering them… — Alexander Hamilton
The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as… — James Madison
We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states] would be introduced… — James Madison
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it… — Alexander Hamilton
Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the… — Abraham Lincoln
Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through… — Thomas Jefferson
'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it… — George Washington
As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights, derive… — John Dickinson
I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at all times equal to the… — Alexander Hamilton
If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when… — George Washington

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