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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs… — Walter Lippmann
I have been Europe's last hope. She proved incapable of refashioning herself by means of voluntary reform. She showed herself impervious to charm and persuasion.… — Adolf Hitler
While I was not consulted prior to the President's decision to intervene in support of the Republic of Korea, that decision from a military standpoint,… — Douglas MacArthur
If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is… — Charles Eliot Norton
In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for… — Saint Augustine
Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness… — Cesar Chavez
... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist! — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive… — Abraham Lincoln
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
Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who… — Edward Kennedy
There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody,… — Orson Scott Card
Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go. — Cecil Day-Lewis
It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis, but be certain… — John Stuart Mill
If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though… — Martin Gardner
I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who,… — Lord Chesterfield
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical… — Bertrand Russell
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness… — J. Reuben Clark
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they… — Joseph Sobran
[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps,… — Henri Frederic Amiel

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