Ours Quotes
1283 quotes by 948 authors
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We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.
— David Attenborough
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Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the…
— Ronald Reagan
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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
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There are still to be found , or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each…
— Arundhati Roy
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Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.
— Eric Bentley
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No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary…
— George Washington
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This democracy of ours, which sometimes we've treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak, so let us not tear it asunder, for…
— Ronald Reagan
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We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is…
— Archibald MacLeish
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In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.
— Walt Whitman
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There are two life-forces in the world I know: Jewish and gentile, ours and yours...I do not believe that this primal difference between gentile and…
— Maurice Samuel
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I hope we can be happy where we are, be grateful for our blessings-now-here, accept the challenge that is ours and make the most of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to…
— Walter Bagehot
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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining…
— John Lennon
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The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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As long as there's this welfare state of ours we're not going to have any good fighters
— Tommy Farr
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Ours is an age between worldviews, creative yet disoriented, a transitional era when the old cultural vision no longer holds and the new has not…
— Richard Tarnas
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But do let me reiterate the spirit of Michigan. It is based upon a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways; an enthusiasm that…
— Fielding H. Yost
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This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.
— Rosario Dawson
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
— Eartha Kitt
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