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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But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.
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It is a sad moment when the first phlox appears. It is the amber light indicating the end of the great burst of early summer and suggesting that we must now start looking forward to autumn. Not that I have any objection to autumn as a season, full of its own beauty; but I just cannot bear to see another summer go, and I recoil from what the first hint of autumn means.
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I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.
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Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.
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The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
