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- life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the…
- I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure…
- no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free…
- among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ...…
- what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and…
- Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the…
- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His…
- The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to…
- An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which…
- If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of…
- Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place…
- I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means…
- Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
- By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of…
- I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common…
- It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe…
- I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
- When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and…
- In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the…
- Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the…
- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among…
- To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.
- I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our…
- The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings,…
- It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to…
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- When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I… — J. J. Abrams
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has… — Marcus Aurelius
- India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not… — Sri Aurobindo
- I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope… — Charles Babbage