Reason Quotes

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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. — George Washington
Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own. — Hermann Hesse
Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for… — Karl Hess
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us? — Ron Paul
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself. — Roger L'Estrange
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for… — David Hobson
The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on. — Ruth Stout
When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved. — Frank Arthur Swinnerton
In the woods we return to reason and faith. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. — Robert Foster Bennett
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that… — Albert Camus
Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently… — Unknown Author
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same… — Denis Diderot
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. — Josh Billings
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so. — Michel de Montaigne
If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's… — Kathleen Turner
I'm of the mind that life is a risk. Every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go… — Thomas Jane
Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit… — John Stuart Mill

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