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Quotations - Alphabetic
- The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is
not true.
They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers...
- My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office
that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams (1735-1826) 2nd US President, 1789...
- To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to
receive all the great truths of which atheism would deny.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) "The Spectator, 239"...
- United we stand, divided we fall. -- Aesop (620-560 BCE) Aesop's Fables:
"The Four Oxen and the...
- Any excuse will serve a tyrant. -- Aesop (620-560 BCE) Aesop's Fables:
"The Wolf and the...
- I will not steal a victory...The end and perfection of our victories is to
avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue.
Alexander III (The Great)...
- Let a woman show deference, not being a slave to her husband;
let her show
she is ready to be guided, not coerced...
- Race involves the inheritance of similar physical variations by large groups
of mankind,
but its psychological and cultural connotations, if...
- Liberty has never yet lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in
anything better than despotism.
With the change of our government, our
manners and...
- We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own
iniquities.
Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum...
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