Secured Quotes
143 quotes by 126 authors
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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
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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
— Jane Addams
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.
— Alexander Hamilton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
— Epictetus
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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
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The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.
— Ayn Rand
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
— Quintilian
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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
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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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