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Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood. — George McGovern
No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who… — Malcolm Lowry
A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I shall be as secret as the grave. — Miguel de Cervantes
Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers. — Luis Bunuel
Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up… — Philip Larkin
We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet… — Samuel Rutherford
That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all… — Ezra Taft Benson
Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace… — Jefferson Davis
My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard." — Marianne Moore
Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw… — Germaine Greer
In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and… — Alan Brennert
Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward… — William Butler Yeats
Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his… — Unknown Author
This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his Heart at the… — John Keats
Love: a grave mental disease. — Plato
...he who goes down to the grave does not return. — Moses
Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters… — Solomon
Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly did… — Teresa of Avila
And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave mistake… — Rachel Kushner
I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the… — Charles Dickens
We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of… — George W. Bush
For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long… — Zachary Taylor
The trade agreement which I had the privilege of signing with your Prime Minister last autumn is tangible evidence of the desire of the people… — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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