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We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying… — Samuel Johnson
The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given… — Samuel Johnson
He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination… — Samuel Johnson
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a… — Herbert Spencer
[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people. — Thomas Jefferson
As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all… — Albert Einstein
Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to… — Oswald Spengler
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows… — Mahatma Gandhi
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against… — Khalil Gibran
The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom… — Russell Kirk
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person,… — Rose Wilder Lane
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself… — C.S. Lewis
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for… — Thomas B. Macaulay
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of… — Paul Dirac
It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world… — Norman Lear
[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. — Desiderius Erasmus
Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary,… — Romain Rolland
It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control. — Richard Bach
The last birthday that's any good is 23. — Andy Rooney
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any… — Robert Breault
It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the… — Robert Breault

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