Firsts Quotes

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The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without hesitation and end… — Joe Biden
Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An… — Edward Abbey
Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and… — John Ashcroft
Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us… — Andrew Ford
From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason,… — Adam Sedgwick
If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall.… — H.G. Wells
I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common… — Thomas Jefferson
Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing… — L. Neil Smith
Remember the first rule of gunfighting ... have a gun. — Jeff Cooper
The 1911 pistol remains the service pistol of choice in the eyes of those who understand the problem. Back when we audited the FBI academy… — Jeff Cooper
To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire. — Karl Marx
The First Amendment is crucial. Of course it is. So are all the others. And the Second Amendment is the one that guarantees that people… — Charlton Heston
I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't… — Charlton Heston
You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the `assault weapons' of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people… — Charlton Heston
Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow… — Zig Ziglar
In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness. — Umberto Eco
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead. — John Dryden
I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride… — Edward Gibbon
Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be… — Charles Churchill
To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it." — Bill Murray
The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others. — Benjamin Disraeli
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are… — Aristotle
Ralph Lauren has always stood for providing quality products, creating worlds and inviting people to take part in our dream. We were the innovators of… — Ralph Lauren
The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements of disorder and… — Benito Mussolini

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