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I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty. — Ronald Reagan
Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only… — Alexander Pope
Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts. — Charles Caleb Colton
Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which… — Martin Luther
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals,… — Charles Darwin
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world. — Edward Kennedy
Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before… — Albert Einstein
Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His… — Thomas Jefferson
For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. — Samuel Johnson
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow,… — Charles Lamb
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as… — Charles Caleb Colton
We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and… — John F. Kennedy
Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than… — Thomas Hood
The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of… — Charles Caleb Colton
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most. — Epicurus
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. — William James
My young son asked me what happens after we die. I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our… — Jack Handey
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through… — James A. Baldwin
Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they… — Heraclitus

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