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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very read more
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated read more
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy read more
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is read more
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have read more
States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
