They Please Quotes
81 They Please quotes by 71 unique authors
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do,…
— Edmund Burke
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I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on…
— Benjamin Carson
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The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please
— Amerigo Vespucci
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If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion…
— Robert Fulghum
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The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
— Thomas Jefferson
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People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what…
— Aristotle
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How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or…
— Adin Ballou
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Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting…
— H. L. Mencken
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I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple…
— Barry Goldwater
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They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle 'If you are not with…
— Vladimir Putin
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Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist what matters is that they show that they…
— Rowan Williams
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It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good…
— Thomas Jefferson
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But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage…
— Benjamin Franklin
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People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure…
— Jean-Luc Godard
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I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the…
— John Wayne
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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and…
— John Tillotson
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What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
— Unknown Author
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All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or…
— Samuel Adams
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to…
— Samuel Adams
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The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they…
— Brian Herbert
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My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to do what they please, and I am to do…
— Frederick The Great
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And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an…
— Galileo Galilei
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