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[Quote No.8410] Need Area: Friends > General "Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
" - Edward Abbey Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8411] Need Area: Friends > General "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
" - Abraham Lincoln Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8434] Need Area: Friends > General "Principle - particularly moral principle - can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true.
" - Edward R Lyman Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8435] Need Area: Friends > General "In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
" - Thomas Jefferson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8437] Need Area: Friends > General "Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.
" - St. Augustine Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8438] Need Area: Friends > General "... there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. [ie freedom and equality of opportunity for all]" - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8450] Need Area: Friends > General "Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
" - Benjamin Franklin Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8453] Need Area: Friends > General "Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
" - Henry Ward Beecher Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8460] Need Area: Friends > General "The time is always ripe to do what is right.
" - Martin Luther King Jr Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8461] Need Area: Friends > General "No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause.
" - Theodore Roosevelt Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8465] Need Area: Friends > General "A person that lives only for themselves; strives for nothing, gives nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing, even to themselves, until they change.
" - unknown Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8475] Need Area: Friends > General "Self-preservation is the first law of nature, but self-sacrifice is the highest rule of grace.
" - Unknown Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8476] Need Area: Friends > General "Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
" - William E. Gladstone Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8484] Need Area: Friends > General "Sex has become one of the most discussed topics of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend that nothing else exists.
" - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8509] Need Area: Friends > General "Trust is built one block at a time, but when it is violated the entire wall comes crashing down.
" - David Branker Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8534] Need Area: Friends > General "The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential branch of liberty, so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole." - John Peter Zenger Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8536] Need Area: Friends > General "The majority of us are for free speech only when it deals with those subjects concerning which we have no intense convictions.
" - Edmund B. Chafee Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8561] Need Area: Friends > General "The more I see of man, the more I like dogs." - Mme. de Stael Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8571] Need Area: Friends > General "The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion ... In a free society these institutions must be wholly free -- which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.
" - Alan Barth Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8577] Need Area: Friends > General "The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it." - Voltaire Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8580] Need Area: Friends > General "The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish." - Justice Robert Jackson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8584] Need Area: Friends > General "The problem of civil society is twofold: how to identify and select wise rulers, and how to assure that their wisdom will be used for the benefit of the ruled -- or of the common good as distinct from their private good." - Harry V. Jaffa Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8585] Need Area: Friends > General "The purpose of freedom is to create it for others." - Bernard Malamud Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8588] Need Area: Friends > General "The rights we have today we may consider natural rights, but they were won by blood, sweat, sacrifice, and death.
" - Dwight D. Eisenhower Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8589] Need Area: Friends > General "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. [what is required for the road to Heaven is good actions]
" - Samuel Johnson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8591] Need Area: Friends > General "The seeds of our own punishment are sown at the same time we commit sin." - Hesiod Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8593] Need Area: Friends > General "The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty." - Abraham Lincoln Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8599] Need Area: Friends > General "The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is always right. [therefore it does not silence dissent]" - Judge Learned Hand Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8600] Need Area: Friends > General "The squeaky hinge gets the oil." - Gene Franklin Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8601] Need Area: Friends > General "The squeaky wheel gets the grease, but the yapping dog gets kicked." - Eric Hoffer Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8602] Need Area: Friends > General "The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
" - Justice Abe Fortas Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8606] Need Area: Friends > General "The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. [nothing to call their own. Is it any wonder it was hard to motivate people to do anything more than the least they could, as everyone got the same reward, regardless of how hard they worked.]
" - The Communist Manifesto Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8609] Need Area: Friends > General "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." - Thomas Jefferson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8612] Need Area: Friends > General "The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, And feel for what their duty bids them do." - Lord George Gordon Byron Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8613] Need Area: Friends > General "The truly generous is the truly wise; And he loves not others, lives unblest." - Horace Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8614] Need Area: Friends > General "The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury." - Sir Philip Sidney Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8626] Need Area: Friends > General "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at its root." - Henry David Thoreau Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8647] Need Area: Friends > General "We judge ourselves mostly by our intentions, but others judge us mostly by our actions. " - Eric Harvey and Al Lucia,“ Walk the Talk“ Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8696] Need Area: Friends > General "Duty is never simple, never easy and rarely obvious.
" - Jean Dutourd Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8700] Need Area: Friends > General "Trust everyone, but always cut the cards.
" - Ronald Reagan Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8703] Need Area: Friends > General "A man of the character in peace is a man of courage in war. Character is a habit. The daily choice of right and wrong. It is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed in war." - General Sir James Glover Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8738] Need Area: Friends > General "There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
" - Hindu Proverb Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8742] Need Area: Friends > General "Don’t do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of the Washington Post." - Donald Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense 2001
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[Quote No.8775] Need Area: Friends > General "If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians, 21 Europeans; 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south, 8 Africans, 52 would be female, 48 would be male 70 would be non-white, 30 would be white, 70 would be non-Christian, 30 would be Christian, 89 would be heterosexual, 11 would be homosexual, 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world’s wealth and all 6 would be from the United states, 80 would live in substandard housing, 70 would be unable to read, 50 would suffer malnutrition, 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth, 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education, 1 would own a computer.
" - Phillip Harter Stanford professor
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[Quote No.8777] Need Area: Friends > General "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
" - Spock character in Gene Rodenberry's 'Star Trek' Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8778] Need Area: Friends > General "[Individualism, individuality, individual freedom:] IDIC = Infinite Diversity Infinitely Combined" - Gene Rodenberry concept of freedom in Gene Rodenberry's 'Star Trek' Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8782] Need Area: Friends > General "If we are to achieve a richer culture, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place." - Margaret Mead Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8803] Need Area: Friends > General "Be good or begone.
" - Bear Bryant Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8814] Need Area: Friends > General "A person, who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person." - unknown Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8816] Need Area: Friends > General "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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