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17188 quotes by 7115 authors
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But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage…
— Benjamin Franklin
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If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon them…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a…
— Cecil Roth
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The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial, speaks for itself.…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or even by grave…
— Herbert Croly
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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through…
— Og Mandino
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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined…
— William Penn
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You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow…
— Robert Collier
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each…
— Joseph Addison
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
— Aldous Huxley
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Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy…
— James Madison
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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…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another…
— Walter Lippmann
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Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth.
— Larry Kramer
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People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then they cannot be…
— Michel Foucault
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Real love cannot be silent in the face of injustice.
— Mel White
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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know…
— John Steinbeck
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You cannot move on to a new phase in life if you bring your old baggage with you, let the bad go, and move onto…
— Patrick Read Johnson
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