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I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed. — Alexander Hamilton
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has… — Alexander Hamilton
Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and… — Alexander Hamilton
The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from… — Edmund Burke
Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between different interests with… — Neville Chamberlain
Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was… — Alexander MacLaren
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition. — Benjamin Tucker
Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man. — Francis Spellman
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms. — Blaise Pascal
The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him,… — Edward McKendree Bounds
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees. — J C Ryle
Where do you run for help? When you are in trouble, what is your first instinct? Do you run to others or to God? Is… — Kay Arthur
But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals upon their heads, and your… — Samuel Rutherford
The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven. — Thomas Brooks
Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary… — Thomas Brooks
God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are… — Thomas Brooks
We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to show us what and how… — Watchman Nee
We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread. — John Owen
Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute. — Jonathan Kellerman

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