I repeat it again--He that supports every administration subverts all government.
For such are the effects of subjecting man to slavery, that it destroys every human principle, vitiates the mind, instills ideas of unlawful cruelties, and eventually subverts the springs of government.
Such are the effects of subjecting man to slavery, that it destroys every human principle, vitiates the mind, instills ideas of unlawful cruelties, and subverts the springs of government.
To deny that infants are thus included in the covenant of grace, destroys the purity and spiritual unity of the Christian compact, and subverts the foundations and harmony of the Christian home.
The skeptical system subverts the whole foundation of morals.
But, on the other hand, the method is inartistic, in that it presents explicitly what might with greater subtlety be conveyed implicitly, and subverts the mood of narrative by obtruding exposition.
Even when it subverts the actual, as in the fable of the morning stars, it may yet be representative of reality.
I repeat it again--He that supports every Administration, subverts all Government.
That this House should name the representative, is a saying which, followed by practice, subverts the constitution.
By it, all municipal law and domestic obligations are abrogated: It always subverts national prosperity and stability; and it is the invincible extinguisher of all true morality and genuine religion.
Just as far as it assumes an intolerant, exclusive, sectarian form, it subverts instead of strengthening the soul's freedom, and becomes the heaviest and most galling yoke which is laid on the intellect and conscience.
But the power of opinion grows into a despotism, which more than all things represses original and free thought, subverts individuality of character, reduces the community to a spiritless monotony, and chills the love of perfection.
The honorable gentleman argues, that, if this government be the sole judge of the extent of its own powers, whether that right of judging be in Congress or the Supreme Court, it equally subverts State sovereignty.
But he does not say that he subverts it--he leaves the orthodox proposer of the principle to find that out.
He, indeed, subvertsit indirectly by a reductio ad absurdum.
Such conduct strikes at the very existence of society, and subverts the foundation on which it is based.
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