The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
Interpretation
The core purpose of America is to uphold justice and liberty rather than solely focusing on business or military matters.
This quote emphasizes that the fundamental responsibility of America goes beyond the pursuit of economic gain or engaging in conflicts. Instead, it highlights the importance of justice and the protection of individual freedoms as the true essence of the nation's identity.
In practice
Emphasizing the importance of justice in a community discussion.
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
When it comes to solving problems of poverty, impact investing can act as a catalyst, but it is not a silver bullet. Successful businesses serving the poor need more than investment capital. They also need infrastructure to enable effective distribution, strong regulatory systems, access to markets, technical assistance as they scale up, and more
How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
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