I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other mans rightsthat each community, as a State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases with all the concerns within that State that interfere with the right of no other State, and that the general government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with anything other than that general class of things that does concern the whole.
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IMMANUEL KANT If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure withou... ROGER CASEMENT And I knew that it was possible he wasn't entirely right for me, but I also knew, in some way... CATHERINE LACEY Everyone has a gift. It's up to you to decide what you do with it. ANTHONY T. HINCKS The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, ar... ABRAHAM LINCOLN That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he s... THOMAS HOBBES That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he s... THOMAS HOOD There is no record of what he did at the meeting. He met with the chief negotiators for the enemy. H... JOHN O'NEIL The rap community has been singled out as more homophobic than other groups, but I don't think t... MICHAEL FRANTI We'll be as gentle or as forceful as we need to be, ... They have a right to protest, we respect the... CHARLES RAMSEY Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more ri... WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER She said, "As long as we're with each other--" "We know we're in exactly the right place," he f... JEAN FERRIS What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of s... BELLE BOYD How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and ... JOSEPH PRIESTLEY We communicate with each other as much as possible. It's something you've got to do with your left b... ARTURO ALVAREZ All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA He absolutely denies that he had any involvement in her death. They were deeply in love with each ot... ADAM A. KRETOWICZ Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. MARGARET MITCHELL In no State is there a weightier law than that which centers its stability in the supreme hereditary... RICHARD WAGNER You and he are so protective of each other that you blame yourselves as soon as something happens wi... SANTINO HASSELL Australian authorities have no right to interfere with individuals who wished to dies as martyrs in ... ABU BAKR Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constituti... LYMAN TRUMBULL Excessive use has been made with the word energy. Please use and state electricity as electricity. T... APURVA GAGLANI When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, an... BLAISE PASCAL Well, as you have realized on a number of occasions, I get damned if I do and damned if I don't. And... JANET RENO My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been r... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU There is no reason to panic, to be afraid. This simply shows that we are in a state of vigilance, an... DOMINIQUE BUSSEREAU I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere o... WILFRID LAURIER I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows t... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Do I agree with everything the governor does? No. But break down the things he has accomplished with... GORDON FISCHER A loyal liberal can get away with anything with other liberals, as long as that loyal liberal is lib... RUSH LIMBAUGH I like Joey Barton. But, you know, I don't want to interfere with that publicly. He has been negotia... ARSENE WENGER A.J. has a lot of things coming up with the Senior Bowl and the NFL (draft) and, as I do with other ... HENRY HUNTER The colleges are so close to each other, and the alumni all work with each other so closely. So if o... BILLY PACKER This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS As with all individuals about whom statements may be made in the upcoming report, the secretary-gene... MARIE OKABE I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no r... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of b... PETE ROSE He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if BENJAMIN FRANKLIN What we can do is try to encourage the idea that the East Village is as much a place as a state of m... PHIL HARTMAN People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, 'If you keep a lot ... C.S. LEWIS It fits right in with a state that has never had a woman as governor and has never sent a woman to W... LINDA MURPHY He's a great athlete. He can play multiple positions, he can throw and run. As the quarterback, he h... CARLOS HARVEST It's nice to be going (to state) with those guys. We're all three in sequential order in weight clas... ADAM VACCARI There has not been any of that so far, ... All the contenders have been treating each other with res... FRANCIS MAUDE Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as littl... BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS California is the only state that has the capacity to do a substitute national program. California h... ROBERT KLEIN Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling. May each of yours be that - having each of you ... JIM HENSON With all its being, the Labor Party supports Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Labor built th... ISAAC HERZOG I think his success has a lot more to do with his desire than with his mind. I am never going to dou... ROB ROONEY As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self... MARK HATFIELD I say he's the fastest kid in the state of Kansas. I say that because he took third in the state in ... JEFF MEYERS I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work. BROOKS ATKINSON I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work BROOKS ATKINSON Endless sorrow has fallen upon my heart. He was one of the truest and best men that ever lived, firm... OLYMPIA BROWN He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the ... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matter which concern the wh... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what ... GERALD R. FORD Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... MARGARET MITCHELL Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the s... REX HUNT Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that h... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The Democrats and other liberal groups try to make it look like CPB is run by a bunch of right-winge... GAY HART GAINES I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES [E]very time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses... C.S. LEWIS The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a ... ERNST MACH It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has prod... THOMAS PAINE Other than the Anthony Davis piece, I don't think (Iowa State) did anything wrong. But the fact that... JAMIE POLLARD There is nothing that we plan to submit to the court of inquiry on Monday nor does plea bargain have... CHARLES GITTINS There is nothing that we plan to submit to the court of inquiry on Monday nor does plea bargain have... CHARLES GITTINS I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than ... ROBERT CHARLES WILSON The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it ... SUSAN B. ANTHONY Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole... LEO TOLSTOY The commonly accepted definition of terrorism is that it is politically motivated violence directed ... PETER BERGEN If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it ... JOHANN VON GOETHE Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side... BLAISE PASCAL So for me, fashion was about standing out as an individual - and it helped me get the attention that... ASAP ROCKY As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made... J.M. SYNGE I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate... CARRIE SNOW I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate... CARRIE P. SNOW One pretty amazing thing we learned early on was that the more time we spent together, the better ou... JOANNA GAINES Our department is proud to be a part of this effort, which enhances the state as a whole as well as ... DOYLE CHILDERS Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER No single state, and no community within any state, has reached a full level of preparedness. The ac... LEAH DEVLIN By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of a... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL No other country has the right to interfere in bilateral relations between China and other countries... ZHU BANGZAO The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different ... G.K. CHESTERTON All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down fo... EDITH SITWELL The governor has no involvement one way or the other. There's been no interaction with the petroleum... DAN HOPKINS
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is w... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelit... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me ABRAHAM LINCOLN I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safe... ABRAHAM LINCOLN All I have learned, I learned from books. ABRAHAM LINCOLN No man is poor who has a Godly mother. ABRAHAM LINCOLN I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody. ABRAHAM LINCOLN The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a ca... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. ABRAHAM LINCOLN The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Achievement has no color ABRAHAM LINCOLN Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other gen... ABRAHAM LINCOLN But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The br... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build o... ABRAHAM LINCOLN We must ask where we are and whither we are tending. ABRAHAM LINCOLN You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend. ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise. ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. ABRAHAM LINCOLN We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remem... ABRAHAM LINCOLN A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on... ABRAHAM LINCOLN With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40. ABRAHAM LINCOLN The President to-night has a dream: He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who h... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advan... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ABRAHAM LINCOLN I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and e... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. ABRAHAM LINCOLN He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met. ABRAHAM LINCOLN When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him ru... ABRAHAM LINCOLN He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be p... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legi... ABRAHAM LINCOLN What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. ABRAHAM LINCOLN It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong. They are the two princip... ABRAHAM LINCOLN