Chief Quotes

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I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of… — Mark Potok
The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope. — Pope Leo I
[The United States and Israel] share many common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which every nation can… — Lyndon B. Johnson
President means chief servant — Mahatma Gandhi
Killing time is the chief end of our society. — Ugo Betti
The President, and government, will only control the militia when a part of them is in the actual service of the federal government, else, they… — Alexander Hamilton
One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent… — Vladimir Lenin
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people… — Thomas Jefferson
I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly… — Dean Acheson
What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian. — Mack McLarty
The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm. — Joyce Cary
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably… — Terry Eagleton
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library, — Jorge Luis Borges
The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy. — Bix Beiderbecke
God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by… — Howard W. Hunter
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Moving fashion used to be one of my chief goals. It's not necessarily any more. Fashion needs to change when life changes. You only need… — Tom Ford
In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as… — Martin Luther
The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness. — Woodrow Wilson

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