Secured Quotes

143 quotes by 126 authors

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. — Jane Addams
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. — Jane Addams
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. — Thomas Aquinas
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. — Alexander Hamilton
By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if… — Edward McKendree Bounds
The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature. — John Calvin
And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained by purchase and… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire. — Epictetus
There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires. — Marcel Proust
The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others. — Ayn Rand
If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the… — Algernon Sidney
Next came the patent laws. These began in England in 1624, and in this country with the adoption of our Constitution. Before then any man… — Abraham Lincoln
There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the gate… — Roger Bacon
No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He,… — James Burgh
No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. — James Burgh
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion. — Quintilian
We say that Christ so died that He infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ's death not… — Charles Spurgeon
Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be… — James Madison

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