I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Its subject is the slow and erratic process by which the peoples of the British Isles learnt - and then for long… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
The players are the essence of the game. It is their creativity, the technical capacity of the player - the players have… — Tite Copy Share Image
It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember… — John Andre Copy Share Image
“Then I am sorry for you, mistress," I said evenly. "But that has nothing to do to me. Do not dare to… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Mungu ana uwezo wa kukuwekea ulinzi kulia na kushoto yaani anayekulinda naye ana mlinzi wake. Lakini wakati mwingine anaacha ufuate kile ambacho… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I felt very bad and could not sleep until 1am. Maybe he could coach me defence. — Tamim Iqbal Copy Share Image
Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I guess that's my defence, is like - even if people think it sucks - it's not me anymore, you know. — Panda Bear Copy Share Image
There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright] — Jude Law Copy Share Image
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
The divers were the bravest of us. They gave their lives for the independence of our country and the success of our… — Mohsen Rezaee Copy Share Image
In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
If someone feels they're being maliciously treated, then they should sue for libel. And if someone is malicious, if they are reckless,… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
I think when you play with the same defence, you sort of understand each other's body language, and you read off each… — Wojciech Szczesny Copy Share Image
Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm able to guard multiple positions, switch and pick and rolls, guard from two to four and be able to help my… — Pascal Siakam Copy Share Image
I think it's just defence wins championships is the phrase and that's not just borne out of randomness. There's something to that. — Fred VanVleet Copy Share Image
A more worldly and competent foreign and defence policy is by far the preferred first line of defence - rather than the… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God, to whom we declare all our miseries, whose support and help we implore… — John Knox Copy Share Image
Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent… — Giraldus Cambrensis Copy Share Image
“The State Defence Committee adopted some 10,000 resolutions and decisions of a military and economic nature during the war. All of them… — Georgy Zhukov Copy Share Image
A nation with a strong defence industry will not only be more secure. It will also reap rich economic benefits - it… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions,… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image