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I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with… — Ronald Reagan
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty. — Henri Frederic Amiel
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter… — Wilfred Trotter
For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim. — Philip Pullman
It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be. If someone is truly… — Chelsea Handler
Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and… — John Dickinson
We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free… — William Faulkner
"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn… — Horace
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself… — C.S. Lewis
Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration. — Walter Lippmann
The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No choice. However messy… — Sabrina Ward Harrison
Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The… — Ellen G. White
He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering… — Walter Russell
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim… — Lysander Spooner
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to… — George Washington
A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill. — Hans F. Sennholz
A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to… — L. Neil Smith
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede… — Barack Obama
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,… — Samuel Johnson
First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be… — William James
The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to… — Sigmund Freud
If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I… — Charles Spurgeon
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I… — Douglas Hofstadter

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