Contend Quotes

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Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold… — Robert E. Lee
You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not… — William Tecumseh Sherman
Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt. — John Calvin
Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for… — Cecil Rhodes
Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden. — John Milton
Heaven's Way does not contend, yet it certainly triumphs. It does not speak, yet it certainly answers. It does not summon, yet things come by… — Laozi
The sage's Way is to act and not to contend. — Laozi
The Elders would go forth, and each must stand for himself...to go in all meekness, in sobriety, and preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified; not… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Global warming is a justice issue. It's a justice issue because global warming is theft - theft from our own children and grand children, of… — Fred Small
Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep. — Robert Browning
In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the mind to some… — Alphonsus Liguori
It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend.… — Thomas Paine
I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for… — Steven Hatfill
Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread — Thomas Seward
The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat. — Eleanor Roosevelt
If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is… — Antoine Wilson
Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same… — Tertullian
The anti-slavery party contends that slavery is wrong in itself, and the Government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South contend that slavery… — Laurence M. Keitt

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