For Madison, on the other hand, a Public Debt is a Public curse, and in a Representative Government greater than in any other.26
Joseph J. Ellis
Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.
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In a very real sense, we are complicitous in their achievement, since we are the audience for which they were performing; knowing we would be watching helped to keep them on their best behavior.
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Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
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I am not a Federalist, he declared in 1789, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
In time to come be shaped by the human mind. Asked
Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.
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It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. History to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree.
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To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.
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Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.
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