Immanuel Kant Quotes
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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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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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
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So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it.
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The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our right to enjoy the sunshine in the great hereafter. At the grave, at least, we should be permitted to lay our burdens down, that a new world, a world of brightness, may open to us. The light that is denied us here should grow into a flood of effulgence beyond the dark, mysterious shadows of death.
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I think everybody has the same attitude. It's like we have something to prove. Last year, our rush defense was not as good as we wanted. This year, we've got Corey.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
