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Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most…
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No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad…
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We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober…
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Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind…
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the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw…
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
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Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This…
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Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have moments when, pressed for…
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I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological…
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If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from officially consecrated…
— Colin Fletcher
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Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places…
— William Safire
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Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.
— R. Scott Bakker
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