Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way.… — Hakeem Olajuwon Copy Share Image
Brethren, understand that the gospel is a gospel which brings a present salvation; and try to feel that it is not presumption,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I think the archaic idea is actually winner take all, because the principle of "one person, one vote" is a principle that… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The agreement is fundamentally that we want to try to resolve this. The agreement is that ISIL is a threat to everybody,… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] rejected the [George] Bush administration's claim that it could indefinitely detain a United States citizen. She upheld… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
We must use a judicial, rather than a political, standard to evaluate [a nominee's] fitness for the Supreme Court. That standard must… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
The fundamental principles of prosperity in every country are so well understood that they need but little if any discussion. They are… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
What . . . is this testimony of Jesus, how can it be acquired, and what will it do for those who… — Keith B. McMullin Copy Share Image
The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime.… — Fredric Wertham Copy Share Image
It is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao's greatest contribution was that he applied the principles of Marxism-Leninism to the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution, pointing the… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body.… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The fundamental principle [of settlement work] remains: that people shall take up their residence in industrial communities, giving what they may have… — Lillian Wald Copy Share Image
Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations,… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
Teachings and ideologies subversive to the fundamental principles of this great Republic, which are contrary to the Constitution of the United States,… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental principle. People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
We live in an age in which the fundamental principles to which we subscribe - liberty, equality and justice for all -… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The great advantage of our system of government over all others, is, that we have a written constitution, defining its limits, and… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the… — E. H. Moore Copy Share Image
Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of… — John Hume Copy Share Image
[Giving] is the essence of the great religions of the world - whether you are discussing the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Christian… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God… — James Otis Copy Share Image