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«Religious matters are to be separated from the jurisdiction of the state not because they are beneath the interests of the state, but, quite to the contrary, because they are too high and holy and thus are beyond the competence of the state»
Author: Isaac Backus
| Keywords:
beneath, competence, contrary, holy, interests, jurisdiction, separated, The State, thus, to the contrary
«People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.»
«The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Constitution,
Government,
People
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constitution, constitutions, dominate, dominated by, instrument, interests, lest, restrain, restraining, restrains, the government
«Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.»
Author: Peter Farquharson
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
depend, depend on, interests, not only, our own, Relationships, trust, willingness
«No nation has friends only interests»
«Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
aside, asides, honest, interests, Mass, Politicians, removed, set aside
«PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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conquerors, dupe, duped, dupes, interests, one to, patriot, statesmen, The conqueror, tool
«There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.»
«No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
accumulation, accumulations, interests, massed, nobler, private, private interest, public interest, The Public Interest
«Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should n»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
false witness, forbid, Interesting Times, interests, murder, observation, plunder, plundered, plundering, plunders, Precepts, reflection, require, steal, witness
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