"In the next place, the state governments are,……" — Joseph Story
"In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them."
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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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Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of…
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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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The true test is, whether the object be of a local character, and local use; or, whether it be of…
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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the…
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They…
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Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
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Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
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Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
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I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again...
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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's…
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Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.
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When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology…
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