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It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

– Dietrich BonhoefferRate it:

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

– Desiderius ErasmusRate it:

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

– Lady Mary Wortley MontaguRate it:

It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)

– Lyndon B. JohnsonRate it:

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

– John Philpot CurranRate it:

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

– Thomas BrowneRate it:

It is the company which makes the occasion, not the surroundings.

– Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

– Oscar WildeRate it:

It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal.

– Marvin E. WolfgangRate it:

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

– Mary DalyRate it:

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

– Pierre CorneilleRate it:

It is the crime that causes the shame, and not the punishment.

– Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

– Aldous HuxleyRate it:

It is the darkest hour before dawn.

– UnknownRate it:

It is the deaf people that create the lies

– ProverbRate it:

It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.

– Mark TwainRate it:

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

– Thomas TrowardRate it:

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

– H.L. MenckenRate it:

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

– Albert EinsteinRate it:

It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.

– Thomas PaineRate it:

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

– William Ewart GladstoneRate it:

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.”

– Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1Rate it:

It is the duty of the United Nations, is to make every international border a garden, a place of art and cultural festival.

– Amit RayRate it:

It is the duty of those serving the people in public place closely to limit public expenditures to the actual needs of the government economically administered, because this bounds the right of the government to extract tribute from the earnings of labor or the property of the citizen, and because public extravagance begets extravagance among the people. We should never be ashamed of the simplicity and prudential economies which are best suited to the operation of a republican form of government and most compatible with the mission of the American people. Those who are selected for a limited time to manage public affairs are still of the people, and may do much by their example to encourage, consistently with the dignity of their official functions, that plain way of life which among their fellow-citizens aids integrity and promotes thrift and prosperity.

– Grover ClevelandRate it:

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