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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
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It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it…
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The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the…
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If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a…
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It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first…
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
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A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
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War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
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The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.
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The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war,…
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In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas,…
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It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the…
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The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be true, even…
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That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.
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If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things.
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It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
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I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but…
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I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't…
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