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So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to… — Niccolo Machiavelli
One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces. — Niccolo Machiavelli
When the Saracens came to attack him, they threw Greek fire onto the barrier he had made; and the fire caught easily, And you should… — Jean de Joinville
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part. — Benjamin Franklin
Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role. — Edward Abbey
That Americans are entitled to freedom is incontestable on every rational principle. All men have one common original: they participate in one common nature, and… — Alexander Hamilton
Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses… — Charles Spurgeon
He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.… — Henry George
What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that,… — Thomas Hobbes
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation… — Abraham Lincoln
I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in… — William Magee
We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them. — Vincent de Paul
What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles...The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble… — Martin Luther
Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than… — Charles Spurgeon
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my… — Saint John Chrysostom
We know not the matter of the things for which we should pray, neither the object to whom we pray, nor the medium by or… — John Bunyan
The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God… — Origen

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