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Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.


Richard Mentor Johnson

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RUTH BADER GINSBURG It is our religious duty to say 'yes' to the constitution and to go to the ballot boxes.
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AESOP He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.
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LIZ VIERING A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
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ERALDO BANOVAC In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from misch...
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RICHARD HALLOWAY Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
RICHARD PRYOR I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.
RICHARD PRYOR I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel b...
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
RICHARD RUSSO Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
RICHARD FORD To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the bol...
RICHARD JEFFERIES Experiments suggest that if one particle of Ebola enters a person's bloodstream, it can cause a ...
RICHARD PRESTON Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would ...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish ...
RICHARD SELZER This is a place where you really are what you achieve in Houston, and that's a tremendous boon t...
RICHARD KINDER And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is m...
RICHARD HOVEY The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
RICHARD OWEN Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of som...
RICHARD POWERS I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don'...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's min...
RICHARD CORLISS A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, 'Boyhood' shimmers ...
RICHARD CORLISS Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a conti...
RICHARD MITCHELL