Instruments Quotes

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Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting… — Alexander Hamilton
The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts… — James Madison
The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with. — George Washington
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. — Angela Carter
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons… — Samuel Johnson
An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought. — Evan Esar
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. — George Boole
There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body… — Penelope Leach
The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of… — Igor Sikorsky
It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good… — Thomas Jefferson
The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought… — Thomas Jefferson
They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto… — Eric Hoffer
Music comes from the musician, not the instrument. — Victor Wooten
I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to… — Mark Twain
In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is no more than… — Carl Flesch
The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon,… — Victor Wooten
There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and music gathering those… — Michael Martin Murphey
I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only the same notes… — Jerry Spinelli
Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents… — Anne McCaffrey

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