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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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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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
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It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.
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The foolish big boys who fight with their toys are so sadly silly.
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Go at life every day with passion and enthusiasm... and when challenges arrive, simply do not give up.
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Don't make a cemetery of your life by burying your talents.
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The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
