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The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.
David Josiah Brewer / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Better Life
Commandments
Golden
Golden Rule
Ten
Ten Commandments
Life Good Better
Parable
Rests
Rule
The Golden Rule
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Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!
David Josiah Brewer / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Appeals
Delight
Doe
Jury
Often Is
Oratory
Ordinary
Counsel
Gather
Speaker
Swayed
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The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond the reach of the inquiring and scientific spear.
David Josiah Brewer / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Inquiring
Sacred
Touched
Time History World
Beyond
Passed
Reach
Scientific
Spear
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He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.
David Josiah Brewer / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Higher
Honest
Lines
Position
Prestige
Develop
Lower
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I believe it is conceded that, notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may, without impropriety, kiss his wife on Sunday and possibly, if he have a chance, some other sweet-faced woman.
David Josiah Brewer / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Blue
Conceded
New England
Sunday
Chance Believe I Believe
Notwithstanding
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It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife to the lower level of concubine. It is not Christianity which has sustained the social evil.
David Josiah Brewer / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Christianity
Mormonism
Polygamy
Sacred
Proclaimed
Sustained
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Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.
David Josiah Brewer / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Barriers
Broken
Confined
Distance
Nations
Neighbor
Vocabulary
Commercial
Inventions
Recognized
Relations
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A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day.
David Josiah Brewer / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Divine
Glory
Mathematics
Thousand
Thousand Years
Ages
Truths
Uplift
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Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly.
David Josiah Brewer / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Hereafter
Relation
Sacred
Supreme
Believed
Infinitely
Involves
Lightly
Merely
Spoken
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Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise, and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian.
David Josiah Brewer / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Christian
Religious
Teaching
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Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.
David Josiah Brewer / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Music
Architecture
Action
Inspire
Judgment
Oratory
Painting
Please
Reason
Sculpture
Thrill
Rules
Being
Those
He
Compels
Controls
Master
Hear
Him
Orator
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Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, nominally Christian, deserve trust, confidence, or even respect, for the contrary is too often the case. Too often, men hold religion as they do property - in their wives' names.
David Josiah Brewer / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Christianity
Contrary
Deserve
Entitled
Tribute
Individuals
Wives
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The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic.
David Josiah Brewer / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Caught
Dissecting
Indefinable
Magnetic
Phonograph
Real Power
Critic
Cruel
Perpetuate
Preserved
Seize
Wonderfully
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It is a mistake to suppose that the Supreme Court is either honoured or helped by being spoken of as beyond criticism. On the contrary, the life and character of its justices should be the objects of constant watchfulness by all, and its judgments subject to the freest criticism.
David Josiah Brewer / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Constant
Criticism
Supreme Court
Honoured
Judgments
Justices
Suppose
On The Contrary
Spoken
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I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ; how constantly the Bible is appealed to as the guide of life and the authority in questions of morals... Add a volume of unofficial declaration to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.
David Josiah Brewer / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Christian
Religious
Teaching
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No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those ideals. No nation has a sacred book to be compared with ours. This American nation from its first settlement at Jamestown to the present hour is based upon and permeated by the principles of the Bible. The more this Bible enters into our national life the grander and purer and better will that life become.
David Josiah Brewer / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Book
Jamestown
Principles
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