Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order... — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York. — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
“The fruit of the Spirit is the outward evidence of the inward reality of a heart “abiding” in Christ.” — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Penetrative insight joined with calm abiding utterly eradicates afflicted states. — Shantideva Copy Share Image
Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding, the invisible in the visible. — Leo Baeck Copy Share Image
Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This bill says go after the criminal, don't go after the law-abiding gun manufacturer or the law-abiding gun seller. — Larry Craig Copy Share Image
...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that… — John Noble Wilford Copy Share Image
Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the… — Peter Jennings Copy Share Image
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into… — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at… — John Dingell Copy Share Image
Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The teaching of their ancient belief is filled with truth for the present day. Its profound sense of justice, nation to nation,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“However strong the branch becomes, however far away it reaches round the home, out of sight of the vine, all its beauty… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
An abiding and central concern of philosophy and religion alike is the fear that the world is alien to human beings, that… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
The most abiding memory of visiting Lucian Freud's studio were his eyes, with the gimlet gaze of a Hooded Falcon. But he… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully in the morning and receive… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read their medical records, access their library accounts… — Ralph Neas Copy Share Image
I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith. It will be saved by the righteous citizens… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Ironically, it was the father's blessing that actually "financed" the prodigal son's trip away from the Father's face! and it was the… — Tommy Tenney Copy Share Image
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
