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9102 Lasts quotes by 5073 unique authors

How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve this last best… — Ronald Reagan
"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any… — John Ruskin
If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would… — Alexander Hamilton
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
The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must… — Alexander Hamilton
The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It was… — George Washington
I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we… — Thomas Jefferson
Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last. — George Washington
In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the… — Thomas Jefferson
I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing… — Imelda Staunton
Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character. — Theodore Parker
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. — Unknown Author
Senator; you've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency? — Joseph N. Welch
I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life. — Fidel Castro
This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism. — Lech Walesa
In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of… — Jacquetta Hawkes
Surrender is just like love. That's why I say only lovers can become sannyasins - because they know a little of how to surrender. Love… — Rajneesh
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think… — Mark Twain
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works… — D. H. Lawrence
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. — Antonio Porchia
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and… — Aberjhani
Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last. — Thomas a Kempis
Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover… — Patrick Henry
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want,… — Joan Didion
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the… — Salman Rushdie

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