And just think, fellow Southrons, what kind of a Confederate nation we could have, if after independence, politicians abandoned equivocation and spoke… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the… — Howard Cosell Copy Share Image
The culture of the mutual fund industry, when I came into it in 1951, was pretty much a culture of fiduciary duty… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The prohibition amendment to the Constitution requires the Congress. and the President to provide adequate laws to prevent its violation. It is… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
I saw the duty and inestimable privilege _immediately_ to accept salvation by Christ. Humbly believing that through sovereign mercy and grace I… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized... I am the hopeful black woman who was… — Common Copy Share Image
A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought… — Forbes Burnham Copy Share Image
I say to Israel, the Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this Church to… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
If I go out of public life with one feeling, with one conviction, it is this : a deep regret for many… — Henri Bourassa Copy Share Image
The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living-… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought,… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The friend who holds up before me the mirror, conceals not my smallest faults, warns me kindly, reproves me affectionately, when I… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
The day of our decease will be that of our coming of age; and with our last breath we shall become free… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I feel that if entertainment is that important, the media, then it's my duty, not only to mankind but to God, to… — Liberace Copy Share Image
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The Bible contains all the extant revelations of God, which He designed to be the rule of faith and practice for his… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
We all have a responsibility, and as Rabbi Heschel, one of my prophets, has put it: "Those who condone, or are silent,… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
You men of the einsatzgruppen are called upon to fulfill a repulsive duty. But you are soldiers who have to carry out… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
I don't mean to harp on this, but it's like the networks are a how-to manual for terrorists. You see them on… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
... the prevalent custom of educating young women only for marriage, and not for the duties and responsibilities consequent on marriage--only for… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace,… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image