Quotes with vice-president

Quotes 281 till 300 of 356.

  • George Bernard Shaw There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Confucius Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Imamu Amiri Baraka This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka
    African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction (1934 - 2014)
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  • Bruce Babbitt This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Bob Graham This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Edgar Quinet Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville Thus every Part was full of Vice,
    Yet the whole Mass a Paradise;
    Flatter'd in Peace, and fear'd in Wars,
    They were th' Esteem of Foreigners,
    And lavish of their Wealth and Lives,
    The Balance of all other Hives.
    The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 155, p. 9
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Thus Vice nurs'd Ingenuity,
    Which join'd with Time and Industry,
    Had carry'd Life's Conveniences,
    It's real Pleasures, Comforts, Ease,
    To such a Height, the very Poor
    Liv'd better than the Rich before.
    The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 197, p. 11
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • John Updike To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Carine Roitfeld To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup, which is usually the same anyway.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Trump is more performance artist than zealot. But he's finding enemies everywhere, whether they are judges of Mexican ancestry, parents of those killed in war, the current president, or children of immigrants. Whether or not he has a sense of decency, he is in grave danger of losing it.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bill Kristol Very few wars in American history were prepared better or more throughly than this one by this president.
    March 1, 2003
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Finley Peter Dunne Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Quentin Crisp Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Ben Jonson Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Vauvenargues Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
    Maxims for Revolutionists
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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