- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
May Quotes
Words shaped by possibility and doubt.
These may quotes range from an honest admission of lingering insecurity carried from childhood, to a scientific point about how measurement affects what can be known about the past. Another notes that even the clearest concept only applies within limits. Related reflections continue in our April quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
- Nov 07, 2020
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.
- Clean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. so that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020