"Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred……" — Walter Lippmann
"Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings."
More Assurance Quotes
- The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. — Pierre Bayle
- It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much… — Donald Cargill
- The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about… — A. R. Ammons
- Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According… — Alice Miller
- [The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on… — Morris Kline
- When the Lord instills hope and faith and peace and assurance in people, they can bring great things to pass.… — Gene R. Cook
- Undertake this journey for the remission of your sins, with the assurance of the imperishable glory of the Kingdom of… — Pope Urban II
- Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort.… — Thomas Brooks
- How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making… — William Cowper
- In prayer we can approach God with complete assurance of His ability to answer us. There is no limit to… — John F Walvoord
- Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to… — Jerry Bridges
- The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began… — Doris Grumbach