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true-friend goal faces
True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals. C. S. Lewis
true-friend circles clique
I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit. Aimee Teegarden
true-friend eye goal
True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.
true-friend inspiration adversity
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies Aristotle
true-friend taken character
Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.
true-friend character people
The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.
true-friend two people
A true friend is one soul divided into two people.
true-friend true-life noble-deeds
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
true-friend sacrifice rights
It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity. Alexis de Tocqueville
4th-of-july blessing liberty
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us. Benjamin Rush
4th-of-july patriotic government
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell
4th-of-july heart america
Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity. Calvin Coolidge
4th-of-july men long
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. Abraham Lincoln
4th-of-july liberty states
The basis of a democratic state is liberty
4th-of-july diversity constitution
For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests. Alexander Hamilton
4th-of-july patriotic democracies-have
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
4th-of-july two alcohol
The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives. David Letterman
4th-of-july media be-good
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. Albert Camus
patriotic people
He was one of the most patriotic people I've ever met. Steve Graham
patriotic somebody
Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better. Kevin Brownlow
patriotic force democratic
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
patriotic race political
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
patriotic deities wealth
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
patriotic men rights
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
patriotic home rights
We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.
patriotic responsibility men
It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages. Bainbridge Colby
patriotic patriotism ephemeral
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. Denis Diderot