Cannot Quotes
17188 quotes by 6763 authors
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We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the…
— James F. Byrnes
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I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.
— Edward Abbey
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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
— Edward Abbey
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You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.
— Edward Abbey
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Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the…
— Edward Abbey
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Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.
— Edward Abbey
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You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.
— Martin Amis
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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
— Jane Austen
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If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and…
— Martin McGuinness
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I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of…
— Edmund Burke
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Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.
— Frederic Bastiat
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What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.
— Samuel Adams
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That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be deserted by all…
— George Washington
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The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which…
— Thomas Paine
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It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas…
— Thomas Paine
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I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is…
— Richard Avedon
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