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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a…
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the…
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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor…
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit…
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with…
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by…
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In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever…
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Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the…
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Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do…
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The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I…
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If we will walk humbly with our God, He will lead us by the hand to exactly who and what we need,…
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And what does the lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God…
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Walk humbly as you can ,always be in the presence of the Lord . Be joyful always (1 Thes.5:16) ; Pray (v.17)…
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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are…
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Mic 6:8: He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly…
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