I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it. — John Locke Copy Share Image
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits… — John Updike Copy Share Image
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Lying damages others. Lying subtly permits us to destroy ourselves as we are caught in the snare and shatter our own self-image… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
Bearing all this in mind, we see that there is no Russian national understanding which would permit the early establishment in Russia… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the… — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Copy Share Image
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways.… — Byron Dorgan Copy Share Image
Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. The new cycle which begins with the ninth year… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quite sure what Late… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Understanding that everything is impermanent, that happiness is transformed into suffering, and that all phenomena are lacking reality in themselves and are… — Bokar Rinpoche Copy Share Image
In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts. — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all. — George B. McClellan Copy Share Image