America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority. — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it,… — Arthur Capper Copy Share Image
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with… — Horace Copy Share Image
“You give me thirty-two inches of folded steel and I'll take on anyone you want." -- Merit” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
As for Christianity's alleged concern with truth, Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. Christianity may… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
So, in our wisdom and fair justice we go on - "Giving to dust that is a little gilt, More laud than… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Clearly our greatest need is not more regulations in order to merit salvation. — David Platt Copy Share Image
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally… — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image
I always think that the people who have the hardest time in the spotlight are the people who have unearned fame, like… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence,… — Henry Lawson Copy Share Image
