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One should not utter a word about his own inadequacies. In the Oxo it says: 'When a man lets out a single word, the long… — Takeda Nobushige
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has… — Alexander Hamilton
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and… — James F. Cooper
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.… — Henry George
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
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and… — Lysander Spooner
Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for… — William Graham Sumner
The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature. — John Calvin
Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our prayer which moves Jesus to… — Ole Hallesby
To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power… — Ole Hallesby
Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer... He may sometimes keep us long waiting...but He will never send us… — J C Ryle
When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the… — Mother Teresa
He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same… — Mother Teresa
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence. — Alexis de Tocqueville
A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them. — Jacob Bronowski
The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates… — Frantz Fanon
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men… — William Faulkner
What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews. — Anne Frank
He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain… — Rabindranath Tagore
The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no… — Theodore Dwight Weld
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned — Duke of Wellington
There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in… — Mark Twain
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. — Lawrence Durrell
Every man's in his own hands, with a little help from his brothers. — Janet Morris

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