"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution."

Home, Ambition, Desire, End

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"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution."

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"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."

James Madison, American President

Home, Danger, Liberty, Loss

"America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it's a strange situation as I feel almost like I'm in no-man's land some of the time, because although I'm a resident, I still can't vote so I don't really have a say in what goes on where I live."

Rick Allen, American Musician

Home, Time, America, Land

"The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages."

Fredric Jameson, American Critic

Home, War, Achievement, Effort

"My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property."

John Breaux, American Politician

Home, Property, Want

"I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't."

Louise Woodward, British Celebrity

Home, Thought

"So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home."

Bill Janklow, American Politician

Home, People, Opportunity

"The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Home, Heart, Kitchen, Health

"When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team."

Richard Roeper, American Critic

Home,

"It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country."

Michael Ondaatje, Canadian Author

Home, Country, State

"Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move."

Augustus Longstreet, American Lawyer

Home, Disgust, Style

Explore more quotes by Samuel Johnson

"Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures."

Relationship

"The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected."

Faith

"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."

Mortality

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

Man

"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."

Literature

"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

Travel

"Sir a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all."

Society

"It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness."

Emotion

"For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."

Humor

"It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see."

Beauty