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We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blush'd before.
Discourse concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). -
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
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We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
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We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
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We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.
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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
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We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.
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We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.
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We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Letter from Birmingham Jail, 16 april 1963 -
We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never.
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We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.
Characteristics (1823) -
We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ''Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did''; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
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We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.
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We must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.
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We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.
The phsyiology of common life (1859) -
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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