William Graham Sumner Quotes
I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
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My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.
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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
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I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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There is a clear interest within ISIS to drag Israel into a war with them. If they do so, they will be able to paint Israel as having an alliance with the states fighting against them.
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I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.
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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
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Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
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What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.
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Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.
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I love country music.
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You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion.
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No system of education is complete that does not harden the hands and toughen muscles, while it is also develops the intellect and enlarges the heart...only through work do we attain the true symmetry, strength, and glory of godly manhood and womanhood.
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I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.
