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The greatest good to the greatest number is the object to be attained. — Ulysses S. Grant · 1869 I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. — Ulysses S. Grant · 1869 I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required. — Ulysses S. Grant · 1873 Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation…we must elect world peace or world destruction. — Bernard Baruch · 1946 I would respect the rights of all nations, demanding equal respect for our own. If others depart from this rule in their dealings with us, we may be compelled to follow their precedent. — Ulysses S. Grant · 1869 The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected. — Ulysses S. Grant · 1873 All 10 quotes →

Legal writing9 quotes

If the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child. — William J. Brennan, Jr. · 1972 Whether, to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest. — William J. Brennan, Jr. · 1957 All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance—unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion—have the full protection of the guaranties... But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance... We hold that obscenity is not within the area of constitutionally protected speech or press. — William J. Brennan, Jr. · 1957 We hold that obscenity is not within the area of constitutionally protected speech or press. — William J. Brennan, Jr. · 1957 The constitutional guarantees require, we think, a federal rule that prohibits a public official from recovering damages for a defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves that the statement was made with "actual malice"—that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not. — William J. Brennan, Jr. · 1964 The chilling effect upon the exercise of First Amendment rights may derive from the fact of the prosecution, unaffected by the prospects of its success or failure. — William J. Brennan, Jr. · 1965 All 9 quotes →

Feminist literature4 quotes

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist bothers to buy a bottle of wine. — Andrea Dworkin · 1979 The power of money is a distinctly male power. Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. In the hands of women, money stays literal; count it out, it buys what it is worth or less. In the hands of men, money buys women, sex, status, dignity, esteem, recognition, loyalty, all manner of possibility. — Andrea Dworkin · 1981 The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples. — Valerie Solanas · 1967 Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do. — Andrea Dworkin · 1981

Political literature4 quotes

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. — Amiri Baraka · 1963 There is an invisible hand in politics that operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. In politics, individuals who seek to promote only the public good are led by an invisible hand to promote special interests that it was no part of their intention to promote. — Milton Friedman · 1983 A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom. — Amiri Baraka · 1962 Whether ours shall continue to be a Government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people. — Archibald Cox · 1973

Rock music4 quotes

So they put a rifle in my hand Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man Born in the U. S. A. — Bruce Springsteen · 1984 We gotta get out while we're young 'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run. — Bruce Springsteen · 1975 The people have the power The power to dream, to rule To wrestle the earth from fools. — Patti Smith · 1988 Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, Or is it something worse? — Bruce Springsteen · 1980

Autobiography and memoir3 quotes

We headed home holding hands. For a moment I dropped back to watch him walk. His sailor's gait always touched me. I knew one day I would stop and he would keep on going, but until then nothing could tear us apart. — Patti Smith · 2010 You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. — Jim Bouton · 1970 I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions-while soaking in comfortable baths or drying myself after bracing showers-in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have ever had in any cathedral. — Edmund Wilson · 1956

Economic literature3 quotes

History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. — Milton Friedman · 1962 There is an invisible hand in politics that operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. In politics, individuals who seek to promote only the public good are led by an invisible hand to promote special interests that it was no part of their intention to promote. — Milton Friedman · 1983 Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself...economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom. — Milton Friedman · 1962

Philosophical literature2 quotes

Politics makes strange bedfellows. — Charles Dudley Warner · 1870 To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch their renewal of life-this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do. — Charles Dudley Warner · 1870

Comedy (play)1 quote

I've always wanted to be somebody. But I see now I should have been more specific. — Jane Wagner · 1985

Historical literature1 quote

The wars fought by human beings are stimulated as a rule primarily by the same instincts as the voracity of the sea slug. — Edmund Wilson · 1962

Pop music1 quote

I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and ev'ry highway And more, much more than this. I did it my way. — Frank Sinatra · 1969

War1 quote

The wars fought by human beings are stimulated as a rule primarily by the same instincts as the voracity of the sea slug. — Edmund Wilson · 1962

War speech1 quote

The war is over-the rebels are our countrymen again. — Ulysses S. Grant · 1865

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