Proper Quotes

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For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it. — Arthur Schopenhauer
There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through… — Benjamin Rush
The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope. — David R. Brower
In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth government.… — Robert Muller
The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan… — Grover Cleveland
It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into the… — Terry Rossio
Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows therefore that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the… — Abraham Lincoln
I further testify that when we eventually see things through the proper perspective of eternal truth, we will be amazed at how much we were… — John H. Groberg
Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything… — Twyla Tharp
That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people, trained… — George Mason
For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. — Clifton Fadiman
Let heaven fill your thoughts instead. Because when you do, everything on earth gets placed in its proper perspective. — Greg Laurie
The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet… — Prince Philip
Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer… — William Irwin Thompson
The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary… — David Korten
There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including fresh… — Gaylord Nelson
To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that… — David Korten
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any… — Ayn Rand
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach humanity our proper relation to the environment where we must live. — Clarence Darrow
The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early… — Thomas Jefferson
Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies… — Alexander Hamilton
[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is… — Joseph Story
The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all… — Alexander Hamilton
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of… — Alexander Hamilton

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