Secure Quotes
1088 quotes by 856 authors
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At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong claims about the…
— Naomi Oreskes
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You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto…
— Osama bin Laden
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The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political discourse where comments…
— Richard Lindzen
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You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the…
— Al Gore
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Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all
— Ban Ki-moon
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When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
— DeForest Soaries
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We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that in a thoroughly…
— John J. Raskob
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To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring something beyond everyday…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be…
— Horace Mann
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[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican…
— Noah Webster
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The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving…
— James Madison
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The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It is not at all probable…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget . .…
— Ronald Reagan
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Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us…
— James Madison
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As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed to…
— George Washington
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There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part…
— Charles Eliot Norton
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