"Boldness and decision command, often even in evil,……" — Robert Dale Owen
"Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind."
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24 Quotes by Robert Dale Owen
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There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to…
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The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to…
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After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is…
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We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.
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It is idle to await unanimity.
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The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.
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Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.
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Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.
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Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves…
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The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless…
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In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the…
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And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as…
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Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?
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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't…
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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then…
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
— Ramakrishna
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. -Johann Wolfgang…
— Frank Sinatra
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A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
— Charles Lamb
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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known,…
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
— Alfred Noyes
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