William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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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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We're concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game.
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But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.
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The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
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I was always pretty good at adapting to my situations. My act was never that inside, where it was like, "Okay, they're either going to get this or they're not."
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The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.
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I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.
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My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.
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The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
