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Joseph Story has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
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As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of…
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have…
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These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of…
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
— Isaac Asimov
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only…
— Isaac Asimov
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents…
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War is what happens when language fails.
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