Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

  

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• We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

  

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• It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

  

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• When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

  

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• There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.

  

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• I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.

  

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• School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.

  

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• After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

  

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• But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.

  

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• Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

  

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• There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

  

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• The years teach much which the days never know.

  

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• I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.

  

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• When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'

  

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• As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.

  

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• Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

  

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• Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

  

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• ISIL, AQ, now have the ability to literally reach into our homeland through social media, through the Internet, to recruit and inspire. It makes for a more complicated homeland security environment. And so it requires a whole of government approach, not just military and law enforcement, homeland security, aviation security, and the like.

  

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• The law which attempts a man's life capital punishment is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime-for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

  

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• A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them, from Truman on would be hung to death and shot. And this current administration is no exception. They should be hung and tried and shot as war criminals.

  

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• Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says, in Latin: 'God has favored our undertaking.' God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will. But I cannot help believing that He truly understands and that He really favors the undertaking that we begin here tonight.

  

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• We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.

  

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• It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Law
  • Years
  • Make