It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former. — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
People tend to believe that good fortune consists of equal parts talent, hard work, and sheer luck. It's hard to deny the… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals.… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The Communist threat from without must not blind us to the Communist threat from within. The latter is reaching into the very… — J. Edgar Hoover Copy Share Image
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade,… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Our Father in Heaven planned the coming forth of the Founding Fathersand their form of government as the necessary great prologue leading… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
