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6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors

The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich with possibilities. — Unknown Author
For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently… — Georg Simmel
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his… — Leon Bourgeois
The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first inaugural address, the… — Thomas G. West
One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of the benevolent emotions… — James Madison
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ...… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his… — Albert Einstein
The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest. — Robert Grudin
Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of… — Albert Einstein
Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence,… — Albert Einstein
In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by other individuals or… — Albert Einstein
With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties. — Thomas Jefferson
What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been… — Calvin Coolidge
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This… — Calvin Coolidge
The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices… — Joel Stein
No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and… — Charles Grandison Finney
The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established… — Charles Grandison Finney
The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular States. — James Madison
It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly… — James Madison
To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it shall be under… — Alexander Hamilton
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result… — James Madison
If the maintenance of public credit, then, be truly important, the next enquiry which suggests itself is, by what means it is to be effected?… — Alexander Hamilton
When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when… — Ronald Reagan
The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit. The former gives power to the state, for the protection of its… — Alexander Hamilton

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