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2017 December 22
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"Do you wish to be free?
Then above all things, love God,
love your neighbor,
love one another,
love the common weal;
then you will have true liberty." |
"But I say unto you, Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you,
and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." |
"To love truth for truth's sake is the
principal part of human perfection in this world,
and the seed-plot of all other virtues." |
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2017 December 21
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"Peace if possible, but truth at any rate." |
"Blessed are the peacemakers:
for they shall be called the children of God." |
"Practical religion consists in doing good:
and the only way of serving God
is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy.
All preaching that has not this for its object
is nonsense and hypocrisy." |
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2017 December 20
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"Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government." |
"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it." |
"I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution." |
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2017 December 19
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"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being." |
"We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money." |
"[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress]
to attend to what generosity and humanity require,
but to what the Constitution and their duty require." |
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2017 December 18
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"In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas."
(Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.) |
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"Welfare rights are pseudo-rights: They rely on the force of law to take private property for the use of others without compensation and without consent. Public charity is forced charity; it is not a virtue but a vice." |
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