Fellows Quotes - Page 30

• I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the constitution. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist. They were given to me and each of my fellow citizens by our creator, and they represent the essence of human dignity.

  Joe Biden

  Children, Believe, Rights

  "Promises to Keep". Book by Joe Biden, 2008.

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• He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Citizens, Want

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Rights, Division Of Labor

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.209, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?

  Mitch Daniels

  Believe, Drawing, Balance

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come

  Mitch Daniels

  Majority, Citizens, Fundamentals

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

  Denis Diderot

  Heart, Character, Men

  "Memoirs of a Nun". Book by Denis Diderot, 1796.

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• Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.

  Nikola Tesla

  Patents, Marconi

  "Who Invented Radio?". www.pbs.org.

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• We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher Powers which have made nature and have made us; for, assuredly, we have not come about by accident and certainly have not made ourselves

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Fellow Man, Made

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Geoffrey [Boycott] is the only fellow I've ever met who fell in love with himself at a young age and has remained faithful ever since

  Dennis Lillee

  Faithful, Age, Young

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• Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental questions of his fate, of his attitude toward God and fellow man, of his individual and collective responsibility and of the sense of his pilgrimage on earth.

  Pope Pius XII

  Pain, Attitude, Responsibility

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• Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on.

  Michael Parenti

  Responsible Government, Leader, Accountability

  Michael Parenti (2004). “Superpatriotism”, p.81, City Lights Books

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• The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the greater the fool.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Smart, Stupid

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• The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.

  Carl David Anderson

  Trying, Would Be, Students

  "Interviewed By Harriett Lyle". Oral History Project, California Institute of Technology Archives, Pasadena, California, 1979.

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• Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.

  Woody Hayes

  Average, Rivers, Feet

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• Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends.

  Barbara Pym

  Lonely, Men, Self

  Barbara Pym (1981). “Jane and Prudence”, Dutton Adult

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• The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness. Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

  Beatrix of the Netherlands

  Eye, Responsibility, Fighting

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• However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

  Seneca the Younger

  Brotherhood, May, Common

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• The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.

  Grover Cleveland

  Character, Government, Expectations

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Men, Class

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.168, Open Road Media

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• The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

  John Denham

  Men, Civilization, Abuse

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• Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.

  Branch Rickey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.

  Walter Johnson

  Baseball, Waiting, Bats

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• A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.

  Alvin Dark

  Have Faith, Faith In God, Fingers

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• Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Light, Honor

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

  Earl Nightingale

  Friendship, Men, Focus

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