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- This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,…
- Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live…
- Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to…
- Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to…
- The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all…
- The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.
- Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and…
- Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it…
- And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are…
- Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early…
- But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men…
- Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here…
- Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called…
- The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly...
- The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which…
- I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will…
- If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
- The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.
- Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor…
- The birthday of a new world is at hand.
- The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied from the ancient…
- The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for…
- All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World....(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With Opportunity.
- There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any…
- The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- 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
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach