Richard Mentor Johnson Quotes
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
Richard Mentor Johnson
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Something rather frightening takes place, namely a self-fulfilling fame that's come up only in the past decade or so, that does not need to base itself in adaptive skill, or any skill for that matter. All it needs is the fuel of more celebrity, and thus more prestige, and thus more celebrity, and so on ad infinitum.
Jack Gleeson
A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.
Wallace Stevens
Baby why'd you leave me, why'd you have to go; I was counting on forever, now I'll never know.
Carrie Underwood
It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
Adam Smith
In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.
Albert Einstein
The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.
Kathryn Harrison
If we judged by realities we should give honor not to the rich for the fine clothes they wear but to the poor who are the makers of such things.
Odo of Cluny
In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.
O. Carl Simonton
The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
Otto Schily
Religious people are simply following major core practices of happy people. For example, one benefits from the guaranteed social support that can be found in a church, synagogue, or mosque.
Karen Salmansohn
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
Richard Mentor Johnson
