We Mean Quotes

140 quotes by 125 authors

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. — Abigail Adams
Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war,… — Herman Boerhaave
We are not fighting for the right to be like you. We respect ourselves too much for that. When we advocate freedom, we mean freedom… — John Oliver Killens
Every child can learn, and we mean it... excuses are not good enough, we need results. — Rod Paige
If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we… — Patrick Henry
Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth. ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the substance of the… — William H. Sylvis
When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must… — Sheena Iyengar
Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from… — David Lloyd George
Over the last six months, I've seen what these two futures look like. And six months from now, we'll all be living in one, or… — Sandra Fluke
We ask advice but we mean approbation. — Charles Caleb Colton
When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the… — Ludwig von Mises
Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same.… — Gian-Carlo Rota
We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean… — Margaret Thatcher
The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long.… — Richard Rodriguez
"Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole… — Saint Augustine
The study of the past with one eye, so to speak, upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history ...… — Herbert Butterfield
If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us, but we don't… — Dennis Prager
The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes,… — Joseph Story
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm. — Stephen Fry

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