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All Quotes Collection
"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."
13
"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."
29
"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."
69
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
55
"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry."
11
"How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?"
13
"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us."
20
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
35
"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."
32
"The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is."
27
"It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion."
40
"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."
55
"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
30
"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement."
15
"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
16
"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future."
250
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
16
"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."
23
"Be the change you are trying to create."
20
"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
35
"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way."
14
"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him."
23
"The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice."
25
"I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money."
58
"Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all."
95
"In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious."
19
"There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder."
99
"The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions."
22
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."
48
"I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system."
51
"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."
19
"These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have."
17
"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement."
47
"The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay."
46
"Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way."
18
"While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings."
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