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?
India is a proud and sovereign country. We do not take any decisions under pressure from the U.S. or any other power.
This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.
Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
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