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If the economy of today were operating close to capacity levels with little unemployment, or if a sudden change in our military requirements should cause… — John F. Kennedy
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation… — James Monroe
We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious sects ought not… — Rutherford B. Hayes
War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is… — John McCain
. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as… — Edgar Lee Masters
Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in… — Isaac Asimov
When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see… — Benjamin Franklin
I am ashamed of some christians because they have so much dependence on Parliment and the law of the land. Much good may Parliment ever… — Charles Spurgeon
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. — George Washington
When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain… — William James
I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's only 'cause they… — Terrence McNally
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone's lips at the present time. It is a magic word which is thought by… — Ernest Belfort Bax
The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways. — Mike Lofgren
As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good… — Elizabeth I
To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family and schoo1 to be… — Catharine Beecher
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being,… — Gautama Buddha
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting… — Samuel Johnson
These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a… — Robert Louis Stevenson

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