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All Quotes Collection
"To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary."
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"The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in."
15
"Necessity... the mother of invention."
11
"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard."
67
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
263
"Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true."
48
"Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
50
"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."
62
"The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp."
11
"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."
140
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
17
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
11
"In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft."
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"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price."
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"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."
28
"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
19
"It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture."
15
"Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends."
10
"I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying."
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"Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."
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"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out."
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"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."
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"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty."
45
"Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause."
13
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."
80
"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince."
12
"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."
20
"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."
64
"One today is worth two tomorrows."
57
"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt."
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