| "I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built. (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)" »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else" »George Stanley McGovern |
| "We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames." »Unknown |
| "Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win" »Henry C. Blinn |
| "Those who stand strong will stand forever." »Joshua D. Clark |
| "When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light." »John W. Gardner |
| "You, the Spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries..." »Israel Zangwill |
| "Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. stand far away, burn face and freeze ass." »Henry Seely |
| "Nowhere to fall but off, Nowhere to stand but on." »Benjamin King |
| "If you don't stand up for something, then you'll fall for anything." »God's Little Instruction Book |
| "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." »Alexander Hamilton |
| "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." »Harry S Truman |
| "I stand in awe of my body." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand." »Mark Twain |
| "Humankind cannot stand very much reality." »T. S. Eliot |
| "The law must be stable, but it must not stand still." »Roscoe Pound |
| "I stand by all the misstatements that I've made." »Dan Quayle |
| "A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way." »John Tudor |
| "Fall seven times, stand up eight." »Japanese Proverb |
| "Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "I always thought that record would stand until it was broken." »Lawrence Peter Berra |
| "Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders." »Bob Moawad |
| "Truth is the only safe ground to stand on." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| "United we stand, divided we fall." »Aesop |
| "We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others." »John F. Kennedy |
| "Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth." »Archimedes |
| "Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "It made our hair stand up in panic fear." »Sophocles |
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