Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

Seneca the Younger

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• For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • First
  • Independence
  • Needed

• He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Person
  • Same
  • Independence

• 'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Long
  • War
  • Happy

• The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Political
  • Identity

• Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Think
  • Said
  • Independence

• The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Beauty
  • Independence

• I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Want
  • Will
  • Independence

• A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Government
  • Independence

• Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • May
  • Problems

• I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Independence
  • Brand

• My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

  

  Iman
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Independence

• Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Up
  • Live
  • Decision

• As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Country
  • Energy
  • Explore

• We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Day
  • Moments
  • Independence

• The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Life
  • Duty
  • Independence

• I built my entire life on the idea of independence.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Life
  • Idea
  • Independence

• The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • House
  • Three
  • Independence

• Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Desire
  • Mean
  • Independence

• Donald Trump needs to stay focused and remember the promises to you, the American people. You know the promises, repeal and replace Obamacare, identify radical Islam, lower taxes, repatriate corporate profits, build the border wall, appoint originalists to the Supreme Court, fix inner cities, energy independence, drain the swamp, send education back to the states, you know, say radical Islam, vet refugees, all of these important issues, free trade.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • People
  • Wall
  • Promise

• You should get a glass stomach. That way you won't have to worry about pulling your head out of your ass!

  

  Dave England
  • Should
  • Head
  • Stomach

• Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.

  

  George Washington Carver
  • Have
  • Satisfied
  • You Are

• What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

  

  William John Locke
  • True
  • Happiness
  • Logical

• A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Independence
  • Stomach