Honore de Balzac Quotes
Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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I have no trouble sleeping.
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Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.
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I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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A couple must agree on the following topics: 1) Do they want kids? 2) Do they want a dog? 3) Do they want sex? 4) Do they want sleep? (If they answer yes to 3 and 4, then they must answer no to 1.) And finally, 5) Who mixes the cocktails before they both don the sexy rubber gloves and clean the toilet?
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I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much.
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Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
