In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international… — Charles Albert Gobat Copy Share Image
“You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If, in order to succeed in an enterprise, I were obliged to choose between fifty deer commanded by a lion, and fifty… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Many people who are forced into emigration suffer and often die tragically; many of their rights are violated, they are obliged to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, when you bumped into someone and asked how they were, they would say, 'Mustn't grumble' or 'Getting by': now… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
