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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
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It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it…
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The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the…
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If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a…
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It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first…
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
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A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
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War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
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The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.
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The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war,…
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If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a…
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It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.
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Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting…
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We resort, frankly, to pies, which is a comedy staple that's gone back, I guess, to since the first pie was ever…
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Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.
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When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment.…
— Haim Ginott
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Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they…
— Don DeLillo
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When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed,…
— Joko Beck
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