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I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us read more
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
No nation has friends only interests
No nation has friends only interests
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.
It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.
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.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to read more
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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.
