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The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
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Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
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It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
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He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.
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For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
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When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
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But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.
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Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.
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She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue.
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Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.
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we ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine, that will save and preserve the life of the patient
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This custom of ostracism was not intended as a punishment for crime, but was called, in order to give it a plausible title, a check to excessive power.
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It is during our most challenging and uncertain moments that our Nation's commitment to due process is most severely tested; and it is in those times that we must preserve our commitment at home to the principles for which we fight abroad.
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Want of a common judge with authority, puts all men in a state of nature: force without right, upon a man's person, makes a state of war
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Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins, if the law be transgressed to another's harm
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The principle then lies about like a loaded weapon ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need.
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with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact
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Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters.
Robert H. Jacksonverified·West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624·June 14, 1943
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It is over the lowest class of mankind that government by terror is intended to operate, and it is on them that it operates to the worst effect.
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Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them.