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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. — Sidney Lanier
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually… — George Santayana
...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of… — Friedrich August von Hayek
There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion. — Frank Chodorov
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its… — Thomas Aquinas
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive. — James Anthony Froude
Society rests upon conscience, not upon science. — Henri Frederic Amiel
My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that… — Charles Spurgeon
[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though… — John Herschel
The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles;… — Thomas Paine
Building a business is like building a home. If the foundation rests on an unstable setting or is constructed with subpar materials, it doesn't matter… — Thomas J. Stanley
I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are… — Brigid Brophy
The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth,… — Thomas Gray
The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every… — Thomas Jefferson
Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers… — John Quincy Adams
Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools. — Unknown Author
I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer. — Denis Hayes
When filled with holy truth the mind rests. — Charles Spurgeon
Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether… — Florence Ellinwood Allen

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