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"Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress If our defence be therealobject of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands" »Patrick Henry
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"There is always more spirit in attack than in defence." »Titus Livius
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"How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems." »Robert Southey
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"Affairs succeed by patience, and he that is hasty falleth headlong." »Sa?di
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"The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty." »Lao Tzu
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"Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry for anger resteth in the bosom of fools." »Ecclesiastes 79 Bible Hebrew
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"There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued." »Thomas Huxley
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"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men." »Samuel Johnson
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"Be not too hasty either with praise or blame speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods." »Seneca
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"Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods." »Seneca
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"I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them." »Robert Bridges
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"One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat." »Woodrow Wilson
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"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat" »Woodrow Wilson
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"Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed." »Unknown
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"What passing bells for these who die as cattleOnly the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons." »Wilfred Owen
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"Man is supreme lord and master Of his own ruin and disaster, Controls his fate, but nothing less In ordering his own happiness: For all his care and providence Is too feeble a defence To render it secure and certain Against the injuries of Fortune; And oft, in spite of all his wit, Is lost by one unlucky hit, And ruined with a circumstance, And mere punctilio of a chance." »Butler
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"To reprehend well is the most necessary and the hardest part of friendship. Who is it that does not sometimes merit a check, and yet how few will endure one? Yet wherein can a friend more unfold his love than in preventing dangers before their birth, or in bringing a man to safety who is travelling on the road to ruin? I grant there is a manner of reprehending which turns a benefit into an injury, and then it both strengthens error and wounds the giver. When thou chidest thy wandering friend do it secretly, in season, in love, not in the ear of a popular convention, for oftentimes the presence of a multitude makes a man take up an unjust defence, rather than fall into a just shame." »Feltham
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"The preamble to the Constitution states We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare... It doesn't say guarantee the general welfare. And it certainly doesn't say give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity." »G Gaia
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