| "The great object is, that every man be armed. ... Every one who is able may have a gun." »Patrick Henry |
| "Everyone thinks his own burden heavy." »French Proverb |
| "The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision." »Henry Kissinger |
| "My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary." »Frederick Sherwood Dunn |
| "The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty." »Lao Tzu |
| "Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly." »Christian Williams |
| "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." »Robert A. Heinlein |
| "Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed." »Reinhold Niebuhr |
| "Leave each one his touch of folly it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry." »John Lancaster Spalding |
| "So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination." »John Haldane |
| "Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you." »Alfred Victor Vigny |
| "Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat." »Julie Burchill |
| "Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people." »Aristotle |
| "Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| "Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings." »Mitchell Burgess |
| "Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins." »R. M. Grenon |
| "The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return." »Gore Vidal |
| "Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song." »Ripley D. Saunders |
| "You shall go with me, newly-married bride,And gaze upon a merrier multitude.White-armed Nuala, Aengus of the Birds,Feachra of the hurtling form, and himWho is the ruler of the Western Host,Finvara, and their Land of Heart's Desire.Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,But joy is wisdom, time an endless song." »William Butler Yeats |
| "I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie" »Albert Einstein |
| "In life you can never be too kind or too fair everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with." »Brian Tracy |
| "Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers" »William S. Gilbert |
| "If we can not trust a freeman with his right to keep and bear arms, then how can we trust him with the right to vote. Surely the right of a freeman to vote has a much greater effect on our collective lives than does any individual's firearm. If one argues that the effect of any one freeman's vote is minimal, then why allow it in the first place To be armed is to secure one's right to representation." »Thomas Mincher |
| "Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy." »Akhenaton |
| "You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe." »Daisaku Ikeda |
| "I've been over what I'm supposed to say and I've got to tell you, it's pretty persuasive stuff, but is it the whole truth It's a slice of truth, a morsel, a fraction. It's a piece of the pie, certainly not the whole enchilada, and now that I've been thinking about it, I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle. Is there such a thing as objective truth I wonder." »Jeff Melvoin |
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