The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.


Frederick Douglass

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ADMIRAL FREDERICK
There are no extraordinary men...just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to de...
ADMIRAL FREDERICK
Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in larg...
FREDERICK SAUNDERS
Everybody prays whether you think of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when someth...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. Al...
FREDERICK SMITH
Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips ov...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and jo...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE
The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.
FREDERICK SPEAKMAN
When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
Whether your faith is that there is a God or that there is not a God, if you don't have any doubts y...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are bec...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.
FREDERICK FARRAR
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else'...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
Man?s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he ...
FREDERICK BAILES
Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
FREDERICK WILCOX
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but ra...
FREDERICK KEONIG
The key to your universe is that you can choose.
CARL FREDERICK
Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, ...
FREDERICK TENNYSON
We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same que...
FREDERICK KEONIG
I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are ...
FREDERICK PERLS
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs ar...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicio...
FREDERICK POLLOCK
What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thi...
FREDERICK TENNYSON
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
FREDERICK SMITH
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
FREDERICK SMITH
Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a...
FREDERICK SODDY
Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
FREDERICK SANGER
My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small Am...
FREDERICK REINES
After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advan...
FREDERICK SANGER
As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this bo...
FREDERICK WEISEL
Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotles...
FREDERICK BUECHNER