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Political speech17 quotes
America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration. — Warren G. Harding · 1920The privileges of American citizenship are so great and its duties so grave that we may well insist upon a good knowledge of every person applying for citizenship and a good knowledge by him of our institutions. We should not cease to be hospitable to immigration, but we should cease to be careless as to the character of it. — Benjamin Harrison · 1889If our great corporations would more scrupulously observe their legal limitations and duties, they would have less cause to complain of the unlawful limitations of their rights or of violent interference with their operations. — Benjamin Harrison · 1889God has placed upon our head a diadem and has laid at our feet power and wealth beyond definition or calculation. But we must not forget that we take these gifts upon the condition that justice and mercy shall hold the reins of power and that the upward avenues of hope shall be free to all the people. — Benjamin Harrison · 1889A community where law is the rule of conduct and where courts, not mobs, execute its penalties is the only attractive field for business investments and honest labor. — Benjamin Harrison · 1889Under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States. — James A. Garfield · 1881All 17 quotes →Drama2 quotes
My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom. — Solomon Northup · 2013I don't want to survive. I want to live. — Solomon Northup · 2013Drama (film)2 quotes
My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom. — Solomon Northup · 2013I don't want to survive. I want to live. — Solomon Northup · 2013Historical drama2 quotes
My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom. — Solomon Northup · 2013I don't want to survive. I want to live. — Solomon Northup · 2013Historical drama (film)2 quotes
My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom. — Solomon Northup · 2013I don't want to survive. I want to live. — Solomon Northup · 2013Alternative rock1 quote
I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel. — Nine Inch Nails · 1994Autobiography and memoir1 quote
There is no substitute for hard work. — Thomas Edison · 1932Historical literature1 quote
As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists. — Thomas Kuhn · 1962Legal writing1 quote
I know it when I see it. — Potter Stewart · 1964Protest song1 quote
War!
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing. — Edwin Starr · 1970Scientific literature1 quote
As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists. — Thomas Kuhn · 1962Soul music1 quote
War!
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing. — Edwin Starr · 1970