Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
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• No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.

  

  Paris Hilton
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• I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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• No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.

  

  Babasaheb
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• Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'

  

  Maisie Williams
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• I owe everything to France.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
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• At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Beginning
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• Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

  

  Lady Gregory
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• You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.

  

  Damian Lewis
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• Any professional athlete will tell you that the mind is everything. For me, there is no shame in saying that I visualize and I meditate, because it really works.

  

  Carli Lloyd
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• Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• A lot of times, when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

  

  Dan Pink
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• Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.

  

  Mara Liasson
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• We aren't hiding anything, ... We're prepared to completely inform the U.N. secretary-general and world community of how things really stand.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • World
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• Agreement has now been reached that negotiations on Turkey's accession to the European Union can and will begin in the very near future.

  

  Jack Straw
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• You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.

  

  Adam McKay
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• My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.

  

  B. B. King
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• Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

  

  Josh Billings
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  • Chastity

• That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Government
  • Liberty
  • Protect