He Pleases Quotes
64 quotes by 56 authors
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Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment…
— Giacomo Casanova
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I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation…
— Abraham Lincoln
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All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as…
— Chief Joseph
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We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.
— Adolf Hitler
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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.
— George Bernard Shaw
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An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with…
— Joseph Addison
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I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a…
— James Bryce
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The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One…
— Henri Matisse
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[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.
— J. Willard Gibbs
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Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
— Jeremy Collier
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Always bear this in mind: Everything is in God's hands, and you are His tool to be used by Him as He pleases. Try to…
— Anandamayi Ma
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It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is…
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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I'd have avoided some of the pain if I could. Anyone would. But I wouldn't have missed knowing any of the people-even the ones whose…
— Red Skelton
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How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And…
— Herodotus
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We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications,…
— William Blackstone
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