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And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime,…
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during…
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth,…
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there…
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose…
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government,…
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons…
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry… — Thomas Jefferson
I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed… — Wendell Berry
He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his obedience cancelled… — Irenaeus of Lyons
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence… — George Catlin
The god of Judaism is the devil. The Jew will not be recognized by God as one of His chosen people until… — David Chilton
We realize the indivisibility of the earth-its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals-and respect it collectively not only as a… — Aldo Leopold
Jesus came to save souls in his fathers name with love and only love that is why he turned up as a… — Ravi Zacharias
Who doesn't desire his fathers death? — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers,… — Horace
Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of… — Max Jacob
Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; One kind with his fathers. — Taliesin

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