We Mean Quotes
140 quotes by 125 authors
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
— Abigail Adams
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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
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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
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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
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Every child can learn, and we mean it... excuses are not good enough, we need results.
— Rod Paige
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.
— Stephen Fry
Who Wrote These We Mean Quotes
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