Beneficent Quotes

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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by… — Annie Besant
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. — Louis D. Brandeis
The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and… — Carol P. Christ
[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole… — Alexander Hamilton
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally… — Louis D. Brandeis
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts… — Rebecca Harding Davis
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as… — Charles Darwin
I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of… — Charles Darwin
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all… — Charles Darwin
We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by the author of… — John Dalton
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and… — Otto Hermann Kahn
Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be… — Norman Robert Campbell
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he… — Immanuel Kant
Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in… — Justus von Liebig
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might. — James Martineau
Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga… — Mahatma Gandhi
What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been… — Calvin Coolidge
I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance… — Benjamin Franklin
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the… — George Washington

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