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- Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to…
- The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use…
- May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants-while…
- No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be…
- We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation,…
- May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and…
- Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.
- 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…
- Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.
- It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people,…
- They (the Jews) work more effectively against us, than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great…
- Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior…
- If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.
- The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any…
- The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a…
- For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can…
- I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection ... that…
- Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
- Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof.…
- When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the…
- Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught…
- When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in the happy hour when…
- In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the…
- Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole…
- Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong