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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.


Edmund Burke

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QURAN I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
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BARRY SANDERS Turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you...
TAYLOR SWIFT Now that I look back, I don't know why I was so stressed about it all this time. Funny how sometimes...
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PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE This is unjust. I could be giving someone a ride, and be prosecuted as a criminal.
JAVIER AGUILAR Everything government touches turns to crap.
RINGO STARR People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker, so an unsuccessful author turns critic
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THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a me...
THOMAS W. HIGGINSON Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY That No. 15 (Burke) is as good of a running quarterback as we've ever seen.
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PHILIP MACALISTER Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, ...
STEPHEN LEACOCK Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, ...
STEPHEN LEACOCK ...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.
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LANA TURNER I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA I've never seen anything as oppressive as this.
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AMOR TOWLES I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.
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ISAIAH WASHINGTON Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.
CONFUCIUS So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. An...
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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
RALPH NADER Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
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MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The evidence knocked clean out of their hands. Nothing but suspicion left…and you can’t arrest a...
FRANCIS ILES Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turn...
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RON PAUL If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
ALFRED NOBEL If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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GARRISON KEILLOR When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi...
C. JOYBELL C. See life as an adventure. There is no security in being feeble. Be brave, be exciting. Be creative. ...
ANE KRSTEVSKA Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to ...
KURT VONNEGUT JR. There's the 'right way' and the 'usual way'.
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WALTER KAUFMANN Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.
JAMAIS CASCIO There is nothing so exhilarating as to be shot at and missed.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
IMMANUEL KANT Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be built
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NEAL BOORTZ And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them t...
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EDMUND BURKE To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
EDMUND BURKE The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKE But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and ...
EDMUND BURKE The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoder...
EDMUND BURKE Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
EDMUND BURKE