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

• Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Small
  • Single

• 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

• We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Always
  • Enough
  • Audience

• 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

• You don't have to get ready if you stay ready, alright? I'm always in the gym, always training, all the time.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Time
  • Training
  • Gym

• Daniel Cormier has been a model champion. He will be a champion for the rest of his life.

  

  Jon Jones
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Model

• I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that position, I don't believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Trust

• I am not a normal man.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Man
  • Normal

• The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Dog
  • Human
  • Almost

• 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