"The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights."

Faith, Constitution, Expression, Rights

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"The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights."

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"Faith is believe."

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"How can we abstain from sexual immorality? Only God can give us the grace."

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"Devote yourself to reading of the Holy Scriptures."

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"To conquer the land we need to win a battle."

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"Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live."

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"If a person takes comfort in his or her faith upon divinity in times of distress, then who the hell am I to say, that the person is delusional."

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"God's grace grant us immeasurable ability to overcome adversity of any type."

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"The Lord Jesus Christ is a blameless Lamb."

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"When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem."

Life, Work, Purpose

"The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions."

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"The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created."

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"So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency."

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"American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation."

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"When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven."

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"Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised."

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"The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest."

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"The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula."

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"I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism."

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