Devised Quotes

149 quotes by 139 authors

No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin sisters,… — James Henley Thornwell
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which… — Eugene Wigner
Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man. — Wallace B. Smith
Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than… — Robert E. Lee
Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions. — Ernest Dimnet
There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted — Thomas Cranmer
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex… — Bill Bryson
I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever… — Thurgood Marshall
No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant. — George Washington
That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy… — James Madison
No torture has yet been devised that could get a liberal to mention the poor, beleaguered Kurds dancing in the streets because Saddam is gone. — Ann Coulter
This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against… — Alexander Hamilton
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation. — Marquis de Sade
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised… — Ronald Reagan
We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to… — Arthur Lynch
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it — Hesiod
The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of… — Calvin Coolidge
No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely… — William James
With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of metallic ore below… — Nikola Tesla
Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on… — Henry Ford

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