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• The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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• The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.

  Ben Shapiro
  American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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• The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.

  Bob Newhart
  American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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• The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

  Alex Cox
  English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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• The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

  Carl Sandburg
  American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal - well-meaning but without understanding.

  Louis D. Brandeis
  American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court (1856 - 1941)
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• The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

  Mother Teresa
  Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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• The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

  Michael Jackson
  American singer, dancer and composer (1958 - 2009)
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• The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

  Saul Alinsky
  American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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• The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

  Sydney Justin Harris
  American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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• The greatest Enemy That Man can have, is his Prosperity.

  The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel 13

  Samuel Daniel
  English poet (1562 - 1619)
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• The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

  G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

  Carl Bernstein
  American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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• The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet (1807 - 1882)
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• The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

  Napoleon
  French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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• The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

  Benjamin Haydon
  British artist (1786 - 1846)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• understanding
• encroachment
• well-meaning
• difficulties
• thoroughness
• exclusively

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