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If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.


John Cotton

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TOM COTTON We need to force Iran to dismantle its nuclear program entirely or face the threat of military force...
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ANN COTTON Guantanamo Bay is a first-rate detention facility that's kept terrorists off the battlefield and...
TOM COTTON The big trick in putting is not method the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.
HENRY COTTON To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow! Go to--I will not hear it...
NATHANIEL COTTON In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.
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ANN COTTON My thesis was a defense of our Constitution on the terms that the founding fathers wrote specificall...
TOM COTTON I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of ever...
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CHARLES COTTON We should triple the amount we spend on defense and quadruple what we spend on prisons. Why do we pa...
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ANN COTTON Under the cover of encryption, terror masterminds provide recruits with the tactics and tools necess...
TOM COTTON The boys are in such a mood that if someone introduced the Ten Commandments, they'd cut them down to...
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ANN COTTON Are we fighting too many wars? And I would say no. We're fighting one war. And it's a war ag...
TOM COTTON I am honoured to join education innovators like Ms. Vicky Colbert, Dr. Madhav Chavan, and Sir Fazle ...
ANN COTTON The claim that too many criminals are being jailed, that there is over-incarceration, ignores an unf...
TOM COTTON The work being done by Linklaters to help organizations understand keys to success in the developmen...
ANN COTTON I agree it should be left up to Commissioner Beck, but because of following the procedures it should...
WILLIAM COTTON I wouldn't suddenly decide to go for a 10-mile run or do sprint intervals on the track at this point...
RICHARD COTTON Against the wishes of my family, I gave up my legal career, and I volunteered for the Army. I became...
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ANN COTTON What I believe is that a lot of the NSA's telephone metadata program is the result of misinforma...
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ANN COTTON Money is hardly neutral. Its connection to power makes it a highly charged social phenomenon and a m...
ANN COTTON Workers are legally entitled to breaks and employers have to acknowledge that. They should try and b...
CHARLES COTTON There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.
COTTON MATHER Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling.
ANN COTTON Terrorists need no excuse to attack us here. They've shown that for decades and decades. We shou...
TOM COTTON President Obama likes to say Guantanamo Bay is a terrorist recruiting tool, and while that may be an...
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TOMMY COTTON Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
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COTTON MATHER Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
COTTON MATHER History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
COTTON MATHER The Spirit of Slumber which the Poison of the old Serpent has brought upon the children of Men is to...
COTTON MATHER That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.
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ANN COTTON It wasn't pretty, but we fought back and won. At that point of the game, I knew I had to step up. I'...
BRANDON COTTON Sometimes you have to find other ways to score when your shot isn't falling. I think it's becoming m...
BRANDON COTTON When [Howell] spun the ball came loose and it was right there for me to take.
BRANDON COTTON B.J. came running up with the lights and siren, and they were really surprised. They all wanted to g...
COTTON HOWELL Commissioner Cotton ? Abstain.
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COTTON ROSSER The shadows now so long do grow,That brambles like tall cedars show,Molehills seem mountains, and th...
CHARLES COTTON The shadows now so long do grow,
That brambles like tall cedars show,
Molehills seem mountai...
CHARLES COTTON Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plo...
ANN COTTON Our goal is simple: to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
TOM COTTON I think that the public debate that we had on the Iran deal was very important. That's probably ...
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TOM COTTON In our globalized world, our domestic prosperity depends heavily on the world economy, which, of cou...
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ANN COTTON No officer wants to be involved in a justified use of force proven unnecessary after the fact, any m...
TOM COTTON The forces that led to radical Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, Islamic State, can ultimatel...
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TOM COTTON The world probably wishes that Great Britain had rebuilt its defenses and stopped Germany from reocc...
TOM COTTON There's not anything that would indicate we're looking at a problem. Of course, we'll be watching it...
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COTTON FITZSIMMONS Usually when a team is really bad, the coach gets fired. But when you see it happen to guys who have...
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TOM COTTON Why would you codify a set of safeguards you might want to change as technology evolves and you face...
TOM COTTON The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.
HENRY COTTON Imagine the ball has little legs, and chop them off.
HENRY COTTON Golf is a matter of confidence. If you think you cannot do it, there is no chance you will.
HENRY COTTON Her demands were outrageous, ... The Scoop.
FEARNE COTTON I'm so excited about joining Radio 1.
FEARNE COTTON I'm so excited about joining Radio 1, ... When I was a kid I did the classic thing of taping shows o...
FEARNE COTTON I'm so excited about joining Radio 1. I'm looking forward to talking about music, obsessing about mu...
FEARNE COTTON I went bright red when I met him. I really fancy him.
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FRAN COTTON Any opportunity to get on the ladder is welcome. But a deal like this should be thought through care...
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JAMES COTTON The object was to get to (Allen) early and he kind of got rattled a little bit.
JAMES COTTON The city can't afford to put this building back together, ... If FSU would work out, they would be a...
JAMES COTTON He can do anything he wants to.
JOY COTTON We love this house. We've talked about buying and building for years, but we get out there and we ca...
JOY COTTON The kids that lived on this street were called river rats.
JOY COTTON Imagine the ball has little legs, and chop them off.
SIR HENRY COTTON My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
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JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
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JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
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JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
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JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God?
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JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
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JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
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JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
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JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life.
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JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
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JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
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JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
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JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
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