James McHenry quotes
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“Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.”
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“Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.”
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“The Holy Scriptures...can alone secure to society order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability, and usefulness.....Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.”
-- James McHenry
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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Source : Abd al-Karim Qasim's historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College, 1959.
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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“I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.”
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“I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.”
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“Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.”
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“Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.”
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