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• Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Rights, Fewer

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• A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples. This is feasible. Those who have produced stoic philosophies have all had enough to eat and drink. I feel I shall find the truth on my deathbed and be surrounded by people too stupid to understand—fussing about medicines instead of searching for wisdom. I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, Philosophy, Stupid

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• Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.

  Jose Rizal

  House Of Cards, Idols, People

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• There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never abducted any woman whose enthusiastic support for such a plan had not been secured well in advance.

  Robin McKinley

  Past, Night, Support

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• Valek smiled. “Good. First, send Kade a reply, asking him not to come.” He pointed at the unopened letter on the table. I had forgotten about it. Sealed with wax, the message appeared to be secured. Valek shrugged. “I was bored.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Bored, Asking, Letters

  Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Spy Glass”, p.133, MIRA

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• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. It enslaves him almost before he has tasted freedom. The 'ologies' will tell you how its done Theology calls it building a conscience or developing a spirit of selflessness. Psychology calls it the growth of the superego. Considering how long society has been at it, you'd expect a better job. But the campaigns have been badly planned and the victory has never been secured.

  B. F. Skinner

  Jobs, Long, Psychology

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• There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Mind, Desire

  Marcel Proust (2018). “Within a Budding Grove”, p.185, Youcanprint

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• The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Rights, Liberty

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.229, Penguin

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• Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured.

  Rick Warren

  Past, Salvation, Given

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• As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Pride, Men

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• What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Intuition, Argument, Forget

  Rebecca Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.17, Pantheon

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• That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of election is well secured and regulated & the exercise of the legislature, executive, and judiciary authorities, is vested in select persons, chosen really and not nominally by the people, will in my opinion be most likely to be happy, regular and durable.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Exercise, Thinking, Government

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• In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity, etc., without having first secured control of our use of ourselves is a perilous affair. Without the control of our use of ourselves, our use of other things is blind; it may lead to anything.

  John Dewey

  Light, Energy, Use

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Ratner (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925 - 1953: 1931-1932, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany”, p.318, SIU Press

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• It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of life are everywhere secured to all.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Country, Rights, Race

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• For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

  Barack Obama

  Self, People, Pro Life

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• In the 10 or so years since e-sourcing technology first made its way into grocers' procurement departments, the results secured have been remarkable: frequent double-digit savings in both direct and indirect categories, new process efficiencies, higher procurement contract compliance, dramatically lower savings leakage - and the list goes on.

  Steve Whiteman

  Technology, Years, Insightful

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• In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.

  Ivy Lee

  Imperfect World, Discipline, Safety

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• Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

  Gerrit Smith

  Men, Rights, Political

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• As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of rights. He who has robbed another of his property, will next endeavor to disarm him of his rights, to secure that property; for when the robber becomes the legislator he believes himself secure.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Rights, Political

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.338

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• The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to the peace and dignity of society, to inquire into the motives of such publications, and to distinguish between those which are meant for use and reformation, and with an eye solely to the public good, and those which are intended merely to delude and defame. To the latter description, it is impossible that any good government should afford protection and impunity.

  Thomas McKean

  Eye, Men, Liberty

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• There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the gate and key is mathematics ... He who is ignorant of this [mathematics] cannot know the other sciences nor the affairs of this world.

  Roger Bacon

  Keys, Ignorant, World

  Roger Bacon (1928). “The Opus majus of Roger Bacon: a translation of Robert Belle Burke”

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• We say that Christ so died that He infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ's death not only may be saved, but are saved, must be saved, and cannot by any possibility run the hazard of being anything but saved.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Running, Men, Numbers

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.1087, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

  Quintilian

  Teaching, Quality, Students

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• No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.

  James Burgh

  Gun, Thinking, People

  James Burgh (2009). “Political Disquisitions”, p.390, Applewood Books

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• No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

  James Burgh

  Gun, People, Second Amendment

  James Burgh (2009). “Political Disquisitions”, p.390, Applewood Books

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