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Us Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives…
- After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?
- No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.
- What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor
- Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
- For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel…
- The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country…
- The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as…
- Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.
- If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong