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• In opening China, the English have secured their presence in East Asia. If we don't commit more resources to get into Southeast Asia now, they or Germany, or even little Belgium might find it ripe for the taking.

  Jules Ferry

  Asia, Germany, East

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• I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

  Agnes Macphail

  Home, Angel, Equality

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• How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

  Frances Wright

  Mean, Exercise, Equality

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.26

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• I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.

  Charles Tupper

  Education, Teacher, School

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• If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism to which the respectability of society will give its thorough approval.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Giving, Liberty, Speech

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as citizens endowed with the three H's namely, Health, Happiness and Helpfulness. The man or woman who succeeds in developing these three attributes has secured the main steps to success this Life.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Life, Girl, Boys

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• I'm weary of conjectures, - this must end 'em.
  Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life,
  My bane and antidote, are both before me:
  This in a moment brings me to an end;
  But this informs me I shall never die.
  The soul, secured in her existence, smiles
  At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
  The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
  Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years;
  But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
  Unhurt amidst the war of elements,
  The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Crush, Stars

  "Cato, A Tragedy". Play by Joseph Addison, 1713.

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• Make Him your friend and protector and your felicity is secured both here and hereafter. And with respect to particular duties to Him, it is your happiness that you are well assured that he best serves his Maker, who does most good to his country and to mankind.

  William Samuel Johnson

  Country, Doe, Makers

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• Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Despair, Duty

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• Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.

  Aldus Manutius

  Book, Purpose, Letters

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• Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. But if unlimited or unbalanced power of disposing property, be put into the hands of those who have no property, France will find, as we have found, the lamb committed to the custody of the world. In such a case, all the pathetic exhortations and addresses of the national assembly to the people, to respect property, will be regarded no more than the warbles of the songsters of the forest.

  John Adams

  Hands, People, Liberty

  "Discourses on Davila : A Series of Papers on Political History first published in the Gazette of the United States". Book by John Adams, No. 13, 1805.

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• The question Tony Blair should be reflecting on this weekend is having achieved this, having secured his place in the history of the Labour Party and the history of Britain, whether now might be a better time to let a new leader in who could then achieve the unity we need if we are going to go forward.

  Robin Cook

  Party, Weekend, Leader

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• I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Association, Way, Pleasure

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• And yet, within her anxiety, secured there like a gemstone, she carries the cool and curious power of occasionally being able to see the world vividly. Clarity bursts upon her a spray of little stars. She understands this, and thinks of it as one of the tricks of consciousness; there is something almost luxurious about it.. The narrative maze opens and permits her to pass through. She may be crowded out of her own life - she knows this for a fact and has always know it - but she possesses, as a compensatory gift, the startling ability to draft alternative versions.

  Carol Shields

  Stars, Thinking, Anxiety

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• We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be significant, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion.

  Daniel Webster

  Order, Law, Rights

  Daniel Webster (1821). “A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England”, p.91

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• The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.

  John Adams

  Kings, Law, Rights

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• Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

  John Adams

  Liberty, Patriot, Property

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.280

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• The health of our home planet and the survival of our species will only be secured through the use of space resources and the expansion of Earth's economic sphere to the Moon and beyond. Creating an off-Earth economy and multi-planet civilization will safeguard the long term prospects of humanity.

  Bob Richards

  Home, Moon, Creating

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• [A] republic . . . [is] a government, in which the property of the public, or people, and of every one of them was secure and protected by law . . . implies liberty; because property cannot be secured unless the man be at liberty to acquire, use or part with it, at his discretion, and unless he have his personal liberty of life and limb, motion and rest, for that purpose.

  John Adams

  Freedom, Men, Law

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.454

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• If an earthly king was to issue out a royal proclamation, on performing or not performing the conditions therein contained, the life or death of his subjects entirely depended, how solicitous would they be to hear what those conditions were? And shall not we pay the same respect to the King of kings and Lord of lords and lend an attentive ear to his ministers, when they are declaring, in his name, how our pardon, peace, and happiness may be secured?

  George Whitefield

  Kings, Names, Issues

  George Whitefield (1812). “Seventy-five Sermons on Various Important Subjects: In this Complete Collection is Included the Eighteen Sermons Taken in Short Hand by Mr. Gurney. And to which is Now Added, a Sermon of the Character, Preaching, &c. of the Rev. Mr. Whitefield”, p.412

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• Keep your eye on the end of the course. Victory is secured already. Do not let the hurdles cause thee consternation. Stay in the running. Verily, I am at thy side. According to each day shall thy strength be; and the race is not to the swift, but the obedient shall receive the prize.

  Frances J Roberts

  Running, Eye, Race

  Frances J. Roberts (1973). “Come Away My Beloved”

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• More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The Bags. The two-song 7-inch, released on Dangerhouse, had a girl on the cover who looked right at you with huge eyes. The songs, 'Survive' and 'Babylonian Gorgon,' were great and made many of my mix tapes.

  Henry Rollins

  Girl, Song, Eye

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• If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Blood, Littles, Tempest

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• If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Sacrifice, Men

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• The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a rich embroidery of passages which lead everywhere and nowhere. The ideas are presented, stood on their head, dissolved into fragments, until the ultimate message becomes the connections of all things great and small, a chain of being which cannot be secured until the last note is in place.

  Russell Sherman

  Ideas, Pages, Lasts

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