Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Unknown
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
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Dorothy Day
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
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Ruth Reichl
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers..of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few,...
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Allan Bloom
A forest is not a wilderness, but a community of souls who speak to one another on the wind.
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Anthony T. Hincks
More Quotes By George Mason
The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.
