Ends Quotes
13717 quotes by 6997 authors
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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to…
— Lord Acton
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If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand…
— Samuel Adams
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The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure…
— Whittaker Chambers
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Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right…
— Alan Dershowitz
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It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History…
— Felix Frankfurter
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Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic freedom is also…
— Milton Friedman
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...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be…
— Heraclitus
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The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
— Samuel Johnson
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A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.
— Paulo Coelho
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This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the…
— Steve Perry
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Love can sweep you off your feet and carry you along in a way you've never known before. But the ride always ends, and you…
— Jack Handey
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I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful remembered walks, green…
— Mary Antin
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Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut…
— Pietro Aretino
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To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you…
— Nido R Qubein
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We are to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of…
— Desmond Morris
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Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.
— Seneca the Younger
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