The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.


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I really don't hold grudges. I mean, I remember everything, but I move on.
ROBERT KRAFT
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.
ROBERT BYRD
And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The ...
ROBERT BYRD
This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.
ROBERT BYRD
It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack....
ROBERT BYRD
The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue th...
ROBERT BYRD
It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of th...
ROBERT BYRD
Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
ROBERT BYRD
Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the wo...
ROBERT BYRD
I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times o...
ROBERT BYRD
Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of havi...
ROBERT BYRD
I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the...
ROBERT BYRD
That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority ...
ROBERT BYRD
One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'...
ROBERT BYRD
Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, ...
ROBERT BYRD
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I b...
ROBERT CARO
If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
ROBERT ALTMAN
Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or gov...
ROBERT KURSON
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That d...
ROBERT FULGHUM
I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of an...
ROBERT SCOBLE
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of ...
ROBERT COLLIER
I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch.
ROBERT WEBB
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
ROBERT FROST
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
ROBERT FROST
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun...
ROBERT FROST
The artist in me cries out for design.
ROBERT FROST
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROST
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first ta...
ROBERT FROST
Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
ROBERT FROST
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
ROBERT FROST
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized societ...
ROBERT FROST
We love things we love what they are.
ROBERT FROST
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
ROBERT FROST
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
ROBERT FROST