Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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• Liberty
• Heroes
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• I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Still
  • Medium
  • Pen

• I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• My daughter passed away in 2003.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Daughter
  • Away
  • Passed

• When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Future
  • Mistake

• I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Like
  • Film
  • Dreams

• Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Care
  • Percent

• As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Living

• How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Beautiful
  • Right
  • Expression

• I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Remember
  • Culture

• Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Language
  • Performance

• You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Know
  • Understand

• To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Challenge
  • Unique
  • Fight

• Do you ever think? The voice, God forbid.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • God

• Nature is one. There is only one truth in life. We have a single universe, which has a sole creator.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Nature

• Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, nothing could come between us. When it gets dark I'll tow your heart away

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Heart
  • Dark

• Too often, we take our construct of reality as an absolute, and what I'm trying to point out for most people is it's important for us to know what we don't know.

  

  Apollo Robbins
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• The first 'Star Wars' film was enormously important. I grew up right smack-bang in the sweet spot of all of those. It's true cinema magic. It's fair to say that, as a kid, I would have been very happy to be Han Solo, and I would have been happy to have gone out with Princess Leia.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • Up
  • Important
  • True

• My pen moves along the pagelike the snout of a strange animalshaped like a human armand dressed in the sleeve of a loose green sweater.

  

  William Collins
  • Human
  • Green
  • Moves

• Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Justice
  • Liberty
  • Moderation

• Kansas is great - and great for America, when, more and more, we honor every human life everywhere.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Great
  • America

• Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.

  

  George Washington
  • Imagination
  • Happiness
  • Liberty

• The vital difference between dreamers and achievers boils down to some very basic, simple habits. People with clear, 'written-out' goals who consistently honor their defined priorities tend to get results faster than others, and enjoy a greater level of happiness and long-term success in all areas of life.

  

  Chalene Johnson
  • People
  • Simple
  • Goal

• Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Honor
  • Liberty
  • Heroes