The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me. — Phil Mickelson Copy Share Image
Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next. — Jones Very Copy Share Image
If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society,… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
“Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through… — Pindar Copy Share Image
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
When God gives a promise, He always tries our faith. Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand.… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
