Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1254.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth losing a job for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
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There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.
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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
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There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in academic life if you say things that are common sense and people nod their heads, it's not very useful. You're not adding anything.
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
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There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude - confidence in self.
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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
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These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.
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These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.
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They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
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This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.
Public papers and addresses of Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third President of the United States, March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893 -
This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.
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