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- As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading…
- I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.
- Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree…
- If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then…
- Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good…
- Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within…
- I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
- The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
- As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
- History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
- How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
- Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
- I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman…
- Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were…
- ...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them
- A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their…
- To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or…
- The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these…
- On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of…
- Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
- A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The…
- Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
- If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear…
- 1.Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2.Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3.Never spend your money before you…
- Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- 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