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American politics5 quotes
Read my lips: no new taxes. — George H.W. Bush · 1988This will not stand. This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait. — George H.W. Bush · 1990Clearly, mistakes were made. — George H.W. Bush · 1986We're a nation of community, of thousands and tens of thousands of ethnic, religious, social, business, labor union, neighborhood, regional and other organizations, all of them varied, voluntary, and unique... A brillant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. — George H.W. Bush · 1988What is at stake is more than one small country; it is a big idea: a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind-peace and security, freedom and the rule of law. — George H.W. Bush · 1991Cold War4 quotes
The biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War. — George H.W. Bush · 1992We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order-a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. — George H.W. Bush · 1991A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn. For in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like the leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. — George H.W. Bush · 1989And now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order. — George H.W. Bush · 1991International politics4 quotes
This will not stand. This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait. — George H.W. Bush · 1990Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion. — Joseph Alsop · 1952We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order-a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. — George H.W. Bush · 1991What is at stake is more than one small country; it is a big idea: a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind-peace and security, freedom and the rule of law. — George H.W. Bush · 1991Persian Gulf War3 quotes
This will not stand. This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait. — George H.W. Bush · 1990A line has been drawn in the sand. — George H.W. Bush · 1990What is at stake is more than one small country; it is a big idea: a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind-peace and security, freedom and the rule of law. — George H.W. Bush · 1991Criminal law2 quotes
Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life. — Elizabeth Fry · 1848Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. — Elizabeth Fry · 1848God and man2 quotes
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire. — Jonathan Edwards · 1741The heart is like a viper, hissing, and spitting poison at God. — Jonathan Edwards · 1736Law2 quotes
Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life. — Elizabeth Fry · 1848Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. — Elizabeth Fry · 1848Legal theory2 quotes
Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life. — Elizabeth Fry · 1848Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. — Elizabeth Fry · 1848Life2 quotes
You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music. — Annie Proulx · 1993Life is what we make of it. Always has been, always will be. — Grandma Moses · 1951New world order2 quotes
And now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order. — George H.W. Bush · 1991What is at stake is more than one small country; it is a big idea: a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind-peace and security, freedom and the rule of law. — George H.W. Bush · 1991Political theory2 quotes
Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion. — Joseph Alsop · 1952We know what works: Freedom works. We know what's right: Freedom is right. We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on Earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections, and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state. — George H.W. Bush · 1989Theory of punishment2 quotes
Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life. — Elizabeth Fry · 1848Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. — Elizabeth Fry · 1848Us vs. them2 quotes
A differentiation arises between ourselves, the we-group, or in-group, and everybody else, or the others-groups, out-groups. — William Graham Sumner · 1906Ethnocentrism is the...view of things in which one's own group is the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it...Each group nourishes its own pride and vanity, boasts itself superior, exalts its own divinities, and looks with contempt on outsiders. — William Graham Sumner · 1906Abstract art1 quote
A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp · 1963Adversity1 quote
He said not "Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shall not be travailed, thou shalt not be diseased"; but he said, "Thou shalt not be overcome." — Julian of Norwich · 1413Agency1 quote
Life is what we make of it. Always has been, always will be. — Grandma Moses · 1951American foreign policy1 quote
We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order-a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. — George H.W. Bush · 1991American frontier1 quote
Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line. In the discussion of its extent, its westward movement, etc., it can not, therefore, any longer have a place in the census reports. — Robert P. Porter · 1891Art1 quote
A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp · 1963British Empire1 quote
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. — Dean Acheson · 1962Broccoli1 quote
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm president of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli! — George H.W. Bush · 1990Butterfly effect1 quote
Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? — Edward N. Lorenz · 1979Campaign promises1 quote
Read my lips: no new taxes. — George H.W. Bush · 1988Capital punishment1 quote
Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life. — Elizabeth Fry · 1848Cause and effect1 quote
Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? — Edward N. Lorenz · 1979Caution1 quote
Look before you leap. — Robert Greene · 1590Civil society1 quote
We're a nation of community, of thousands and tens of thousands of ethnic, religious, social, business, labor union, neighborhood, regional and other organizations, all of them varied, voluntary, and unique... A brillant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. — George H.W. Bush · 1988Custom and convention1 quote
The men, women, and children who compose a society at any time are the unconscious depositaries and transmitters of the mores. They inherited them without knowing it; they are molding them unconsciously; they will transmit them involuntarily. The people cannot make the mores. They are made by them. — William Graham Sumner · 1906Death1 quote
The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others. — Jonathan Edwards · 1834End of history1 quote
And now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order. — George H.W. Bush · 1991