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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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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made,…
— Noah Webster
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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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I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who…
— John Pugsley
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If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . .…
— Noah Webster
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You know in politics you are dealing in the realm of choices. You don't always have clear-cut decision between a thoroughly principled…
— Peter Costello
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When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy,…
— David A. Bednar
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I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
— Julia Ward Howe
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New Zealand's nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is…
— David Lange
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If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
— Henry David Thoreau
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We must be vigilant that we don't sink into the morass of sectarianism, mixing, pettiness etc. We must not get involved in…
— Thomas S. Power
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The Constitution has been eviscerated while Democrats have stood by with nary a whimper. It is a gutless, unprincipled party, bought and…
— Rocky Anderson
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