"Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical……" — Joseph Story
"Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise of philosophical acuteness or judicial research. They are instruments of a practical nature, founded on the common business of human life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use, and fitted for common understandings."
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47 Quotes by Joseph Story
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It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the…
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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…
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One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making…
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of…
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Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age…
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Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of…
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Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood…
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[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power…
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So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where…
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The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states,…
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In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the…
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The true test is, whether the object be of a local character, and local use; or, whether it be of…
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What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is…
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my…
— Robert Burns
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That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that…
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Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning…
— John Stuart Mill
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Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible…
— Anne Lamott
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Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things…
— William Hazlitt
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Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected…
— Carl Jung
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A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have…
— George Bernard Shaw
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And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than…
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