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We are starting in the days where there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste or creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle: that we are all citizens, and equal citizens, of one State.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
John Henry Newman
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
Fanny Kemble
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.
Lyman Trumbull
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If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it.


Angus King
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A public is a necessary fiction.


Rowan Williams
King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.
Cornel West
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The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.
Archibald Hill
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
William Godwin
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This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.


Thomas Dekker
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So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.


Anna Neagle
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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.


John Ciardi
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.


Thomas Paine
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
Edward Gibbon
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I'll answer to none but the King himself.


Thomas Blood
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As Tony Blair has made clear, our fundamental challenge is how to make Europe work better.


John Hutton
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What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.


Robert Fripp
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I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.


Thomas More
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I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
Thomas Erskine