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“We're going to protect and honor the Constitution, and I don't have the authority to set it aside.... If I had the authority to set it aside, this would be a dangerous government, and I wouldn't respect it.”

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John Ashcroft

John Ashcroft is a prominent American politician who served as the Governor of Missouri. Born on May 9, 1942, in Missouri, he has held various political positions throughout his career, including Governor of Missouri and U.S. Attorney General. Ashcroft has been a key figure in the Republican Party and has been influential in both state and national policy-making. more

“Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. Even if some unknown landmass is there, and not just ocean, there was only one pair of original ancestors, and it is inconceivable that such distant regions should have been peopled by Adam's descendants.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain; but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved, and are daily proving by actual experiment), in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word.”

Source: Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]

“I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.”

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Book:The Big Three Mountain-Movers

Source: The Big Three Mountain-Movers

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