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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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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
— Edmund Burke
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It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will…
— Bernard DeVoto
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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…
— Joseph Story
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So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons…
— Olaf Stapledon
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Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier…
— Petrarch
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What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.
— Robert Mugabe
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Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are…
— Moshe Dayan
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Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making…
— Paulo Coelho
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There are more temples across the earth than there have ever been. More people in all the world have felt the Spirit…
— Henry B. Eyring
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Latinos have fought in all of America’s wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country…
— Joe Baca
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Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives…
— Vine Deloria, Jr.
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Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New…
— Ernst Mayr
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