Destroyed Quotes
1168 quotes by 911 authors
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Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again…
— William Beebe
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Though a man may be found in a weak state, that does not at all mean that he has been abandoned by God. On the…
— John of Shanghai and San Francisco
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Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride…
— Anthony of Padua
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I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and…
— Alexander Hamilton
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To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government.…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was…
— Oscar Wilde
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It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.
— Warren Cuccurullo
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Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but…
— John S. Mosby
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Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.'…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.
— C. Everett Koop
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It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally destroyed healthy life…
— Adolf Hitler
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The home is under siege. So many families are being destroyed...If anyone can change the dismal situation into which we are sliding, it is you.…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked. We have applied them for…
— Kofi Annan
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The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are using…
— Cesar Chavez
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This planet is our home. If we destroy the planet, we've destroyed our home, so it is fundamentally important.
— Ross Perot
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No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble…
— Helen Keller
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