Common Quote by Franklin Pierce

“While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can untie in a common objective and sustain common principles.”

Franklin Pierce

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I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September…

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Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

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I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

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A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist…

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The founders of the Republic dealt with things as they were presented to them, in a spirit of self sacrificing Patriotism and as time…

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If your past is limited, your future is boundless.

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READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all . . . to provide for those who, in the mysterious order…

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You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

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I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

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It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

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I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.

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A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

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We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

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The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel.

Jeffrey R. Holland

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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

Jacque Fresco

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Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,…

Joseph Stalin

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When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you…

Olivia Newton-John

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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a…

Seneca the Younger

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Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

Albert Einstein

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A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood