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Thomas Francis Meagher

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I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfor...
THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER
Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the histor...
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A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can ...
THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER
A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. Fo...
THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER
The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may requ...
THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will ...
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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
ALEXANDER GREAT
I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
ALEXANDER GREAT
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
ALEXANDER GREAT
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and ...
ALEXANDER GREAT
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER GREAT
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER GREAT
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
ALEXANDER GREAT
Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them ...
ALEXANDER GREAT
I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory...
ALEXANDER GREAT
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
ALEXANDER GREAT
I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.
CATHERINE GREAT
I am one of the people who love the why of things
CATHERINE GREAT
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read . . .
CATHERINE GREAT
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
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If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off
CATHERINE GREAT
People drinking these beers enjoy the flavors and drink them a lot slower than normal beers.
CATHERINE GREAT
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
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I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly wh...
CATHERINE GREAT
I praise loudly, I blame softly
CATHERINE GREAT
For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do ...
CATHERINE GREAT
The Many Trials of One Jane Doe.
GREAT WHITE
[To call it red would be doing a disservice to the brightest scarlet, and to call the air blue in hi...
GREAT BRITAIN
Once Bitten, Twice Shy.
GREAT WHITE
I don't have to have all of it, I had some, I'm happy.
GREAT APE
Andrea Tafi was the winner of the first professional bike race my wife and I ever saw in 1997 and so...
GREAT BRITAIN
I could have done without a long road trip to Basingstoke on the Saturday and then an overnight bus ...
GREAT BRITAIN
The organisers have done a fantastic job all week given the volume of traffic we have in this countr...
GREAT BRITAIN
GET BACK IN YOUR CAVE.
GREAT BRITAIN
Life. It works better if your already smart.
GREAT APE
Why can't I think as well as I can see?
GREAT APE
I think, I am a thought, that can think. The most basic and at the same time the biggest thought pos...
GREAT APE
I don't want to have an opinion anymore. I can't please everyone, isn't that what they're for?
GREAT APE
It sounds like I'm already dead, I just don't know it yet.
GREAT APE
A fool and his money together again.
GREAT APE
I need to learn bigger words and do those (things).
GREAT APE
Well we are monkeys, only our eeks and ahhs sound like P's and Q's
GREAT APE
And the oldest birds hunt when they can see.
GREAT APE
I don't gamble. I take chances. I don't play with money, I play with life as I know it.
GREAT APE
There's a big difference between making a change and making a million.
GREAT APE
Avenue Q
GREAT WHITE
The Angel Song.
GREAT WHITE
Our thoughts and prayers are with those that have passed away, those that are suffering and to the f...
GREAT WHITE
vigilant in all parts of the country, and especially in the vicinity of potential terrorist targets.
GREAT BRITAIN
We realized, rather than go to the next level of garage rock, there was a whole other world out ther...
GREAT BRITAIN
Although Edgeworth in the preface justifies much of the work, he must admit that a sizable portion o...
GREAT BRITAIN
one country, two systems.
GREAT BRITAIN
we demonstrated that one in five elite athletes suffer from exercise-induced asthma.
GREAT BRITAIN
Beginning and average players are in great demand.
JOHN AMELSBERG
All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
JACQUES PEPIN
Alfie [Thomas] will be captain, he's a brilliant captain, but it was great standing in for him.
MICHAEL OWEN
We are seeing great demand for our products in corporate America.
GREG WOOCK
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake.
ARISTOTLE
Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benj...
ROBERT HORMATS
The 2005 nickel designs follow Thomas Jefferson's vision to explore the great West, ... small pieces...
HENRIETTA HOLSMAN
Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.
BILL GATES
At half past one in the morning, three sides of Union Square were in flames. The fourth side, where ...
JACK LONDON
He has great enthusiasm, great intensity, great passion and a love for the game. He's another guy wh...
JACK ARMSTRONG
Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
THéRèSE DE LISIEUX
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Martha Stewart Living. The momentum is continuing to build and clearly there's great demand.
ELIZABETH ESTROFF
USNA had a great engineering school, which was one of my interests, and I knew I would benefit from ...
DAVID ROBINSON
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THOMAS MERTON
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DAVID HOWELL
St. Thomas More has a great defensive team. They pressure the ball so well and they really get into ...
DONAVAN DEBOER
The offering was met with great demand from both Europe and the United States, with extremely high q...
HENRIK GOBEL
Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to ...
SIR WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL (3)
I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be m...
ERIC LINDROS
Up-selling Oxford Media's Video-on-Demand and Pay-Per-View solutions have shortened our sales cycle ...
WENDY PALMER
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the nex...
FREDERICK THE GREAT
Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
PETER THE GREAT
Our work is to present things that are as they are.
FREDERICK THE GREAT
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

{His teacher...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Rogues, would you live forever?
FREDERICK THE GREAT
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and th...
FREDERICK THE GREAT
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
FREDERICK THE GREAT
In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT
What is the good of experience if you do not reflect.
FREDERICK THE GREAT
The heart itself is only a small vessel,
yet dragons are there, and lions,
there are poisonou...
MAKARIOS THE GREAT
An educated people can be easily governed.
FREDERICK THE GREAT
I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
FREDERICK THE GREAT
Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
FREDERICK THE GREAT
I love opposition that has convictions.
FREDERICK THE GREAT
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
LEO THE GREAT
They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for Go...
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My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
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He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
FRANCIS BACON
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
FRANCIS BACON
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...
FRANCIS BACON
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
FRANCIS BACON
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
FRANCIS BACON
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ...
FRANCIS BACON
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
FRANCIS BACON
All colors will agree in the dark.
FRANCIS BACON
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far...
FRANCIS BACON
It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow...
FRANCIS BACON
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
FRANCIS BACON
In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin wi...
FRANCIS BACON
Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars,...
FRANCIS BACON
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
FRANCIS BACON
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
FRANCIS BACON
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwre...
FRANCIS BACON