Edmund Morris Quotes
He is the most dangerous foe to human liberty that has ever set foot on American soil.
Quotes to Explore
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.
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The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
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Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
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The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.
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San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.
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The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
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You can't evade a thing. Those who try to get around it are weak. Those who meet it gallantly are strong. So many women try to dodge life. They don't economize because it's inconvenient. They don't work because it's tiring. They don't have a child because it's painful. They don't look at the dead because it's saddening. Face them all, Laura. Face them squarely and meet them gallantly... as your grandmother did. For every one of the old experiences will be there... birth... marriage... death... disappointment... grief... little joys... little sorrows. You'll have to meet them all. It's part of the story...
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He is the most dangerous foe to human liberty that has ever set foot on American soil.
