Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no legislature and no majority, however great, may morally limit or destroy these; that the sole function of government is to protect life, liberty, and property, and anything more than this is usurpation and oppression.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Time
  • Remember
  • True

• Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Small
  • Popular
  • Chess

• Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Life
  • Side
  • East

• It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Military
  • Relate

• Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Water
  • Serious
  • China

• Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Support
  • Nice
  • Red

• Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Love
  • Done
  • Small

• You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Measure

• There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Evil
  • Religion

• I was going to college to be a doctor.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • College
  • Going
  • Doctor

• Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • World
  • Power
  • Change

• She waits for me; my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

  

  Rain
  • She
  • Earth

• I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • God
  • Men
  • Beginning

• We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Great

• A people divided over the right to vote can never build a Nation united.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • People

• I knew since third grade I wanted to be Jim Carrey. His freedom, his goofiness, his crazy, loud, sudden energy. I told my family I was going to be a pediatrician, but in the back of my mind, I was like, 'Nope, I'm going to be the biggest movie star ever.'

  

  King Bach
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Movie

• As a little girl growing up in the Deep South, my mother told me that my future lay in my education. And she was right.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• Every band I've come across has read more than I have.

  

  Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
  • Band

• The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Question
  • Space
  • Destiny

• There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

  

  Chanakya
  • Mind
  • Mercy
  • Contentment

• God hath his mysteries of grace, Ways that we cannot tell, He hides them deep, like the secret sleep Of him he loved so well.

  

  Cecil Frances Alexander
  • God
  • Sleep
  • Secret

• We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Together

• I've never had much sympathy for orphans, I mean, when I was their age I would have killed to have no parents to make me clean my room and stuff

  

  Zach Braff
  • Age
  • Parents
  • Mean

• I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no legislature and no majority, however great, may morally limit or destroy these; that the sole function of government is to protect life, liberty, and property, and anything more than this is usurpation and oppression.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Life
  • God
  • Government