Destruction Quote by Oliver Cromwell

“My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.”

Oliver Cromwell

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Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.

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A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.

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Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.

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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

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For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

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There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

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Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

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Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a…

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Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

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“You are a lawmaker in your own right.”

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