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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many. — Larry Page
I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay… — Thomas Paine
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South… — George Washington
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of… — James Madison
Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to… — James Madison
The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and from which no… — James Madison
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind. Our… — Ronald Reagan
I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair… — Thomas Paine
Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways.… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few. — William Eldridge Odom
I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of… — Gustave Flaubert
There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and… — John F. Kennedy
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something… — Edith Hamilton
The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be… — Raymond Chandler
The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine… — H. L. Mencken
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road. — Charles Caleb Colton
Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up on the mountain… — Richard Bach
God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers. — Dustin Hoffman
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes — Luigi Pirandello
I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could… — Michael Parenti
It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there… — Unknown Author
Martin, Dave, and I get together and rough out a few songs and put them on cassettes for some reference...With the actual music, I'm not… — Ian Anderson
Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be… — James Madison
There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our… — Abraham Lincoln

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