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“Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.”

Support Democracy Blood Ought Mere Veins Arteries

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Another thing very injurious to the child is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon, which should always be left till the child has not only repeatedly breathed but till all pulsation in the cord ceases. As otherwise the child is much weaker than it ought to be, a part of the blood being left in the placenta which ought to have been in the child and at the same time the placenta does not so naturally collapse, and withdraw itself from the sides of the uterus, and is not therefore removed with so much safety and certainty.”

Should Children Doe Has Beens Left Sides Cutting Blood Ought Safety Cease Certainty Strings Collapse Cords Navel Uterus Placenta

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“Liberty is a blessing so inestimable, that, wherever there appears any probability of recovering it, a nation may willingly run many hazards, and ought not even to repine at the greatest effusion of blood or dissipation of treasure.”

May Running Nations Liberty Blood Ought Blessing Treasure Probability Hazards Recovering Dissipation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that my sins may always be forgiven me.”

Ifs May Sin Blood Ought Forgiven Remission

Author:Ambrose

“Wars are generally fought for material things; they're not fought over ideals. After we get into them, we are told we are fighting for ideals. We are fighting for oil and tin and rubber and markets, and as long as we insist on a standard of life that is so high above all the rest of the world, we're going to have to pay for our standard of living with a lot of blood. I think we ought to re-examine the fact that Jesus was a pauper, and we should be committing ourselves to a very humble, simple way of life.”

Thinking World Way Should Long War Facts Fighting Jesus Simple Pay Blood Materials Ought Standards Ideals Humble Oil Rubber Standards Of Living Tin Material Things Simple Ways

Author:Clarence Jordan

“To watch the progress of such endeavors is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us on our guard against encroachments of power. This then is a right of utmost importance, one for which, instead of yielding it up, we ought rather to spill our blood.”

Giving Watches Progress Blood Ought Office Importance Presses Endeavor Alarms Spills Free Press Encroachment

Book:The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary

Source: The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary

“The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.”

Men Faces Father Moral Virtue Blood Son Ought Ties Good Man Similarity

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death - ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.”