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"It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat."
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John Amery

"It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat."

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"A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way."
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Fisher Ames

"A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way."

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"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty."
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Fisher Ames

"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty."

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"No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language."
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Fisher Ames

"No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language."

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"The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away."
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Fisher Ames

"The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away."

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"The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin."
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William Ames

"The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin."

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"Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation."
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William Ames

"Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation."

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"Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker."
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William Ames

"Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker."

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"Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God."
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William Ames

"Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God."

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"Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image."
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William Ames

"Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image."

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"The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence."
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William Ames

"The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence."

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"The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God."
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William Ames

"The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God."

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"The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things."
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William Ames

"The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things."

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"The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal."
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William Ames

"The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal."

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"The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature."
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William Ames

"The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature."

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"The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before."
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William Ames

"The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before."

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"The will of God is single and totally one in Him."
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William Ames

"The will of God is single and totally one in Him."

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"The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification."
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William Ames

"The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification."

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"The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is."
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William Ames

"The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is."

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"In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature."
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William Ames

"In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature."

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"An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else."
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William Ames

"An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else."

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"Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers."
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William Ames

"Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers."

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"Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God."
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William Ames

"Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God."

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"From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer."
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William Ames

"From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer."

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"For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor."
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William Ames

"For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor."

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"Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us."
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William Ames

"Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us."

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"Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things."
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William Ames

"Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things."

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"In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor."
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William Ames

"In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor."

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"Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object."
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William Ames

"Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object."

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"Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul."
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William Ames

"Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul."

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"The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things."
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William Ames

"The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things."

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"Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church."
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William Ames

"Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church."

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"This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties."
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William Ames

"This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties."

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"There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain."
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Lord Amherst

"There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain."

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"A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration."
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Edmondo De Amicis

"A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration."

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"When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling."
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Barbara Amiel

"When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling."

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"Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II."
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Barbara Amiel

"Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II."

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"When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice."
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Barbara Amiel

"When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice."

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"The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire."
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Barbara Amiel

"The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire."

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"Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control."
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Barbara Amiel

"Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control."

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"The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia."
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Barbara Amiel

"The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia."

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"The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved."
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Barbara Amiel

"The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved."

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"There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa."
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Barbara Amiel

"There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa."

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"There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea."
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Barbara Amiel

"There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea."

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"Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word."
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Barbara Amiel

"Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word."

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"Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you."
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Barbara Amiel

"Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you."

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"They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children."
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Barbara Amiel

"They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children."

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"By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire."
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Barbara Amiel

"By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire."

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"Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships."
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Barbara Amiel

"Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships."

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"The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists."
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Barbara Amiel

"The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists."

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