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«Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism»
Author: Barry Goldwater
(Politician, Senator)
| About:
Equality,
Liberty
| Keywords:
conformity, despotism, differences, emancipation, equality, fathers, Father Time, First to, founding, Founding Fathers, In Our Time, rightly, tragically, wrongly
«And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's sake, they were blowing peoples' heads off because they put a tax on their breakfast beverage. And it wasn't even coffee.»
Author: Dennis Miller
(Actor, Comedian)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
beverage, beverages, blowing, bringing, bringing up, bring off, civil, coffee, crap, craps, fathers, founding, Founding Fathers, libertarian, libertarians, peoples, tolerated
«Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| About:
Family,
Generations
| Keywords:
fathers, grandfathers, revolts
«And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?»
«At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.»
Author: E. E. Cummings
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fathers, Father Time, Indians, pilgrim, Pilgrim Fathers, punch, punched, punches, punching, punch in, shoot
«Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Peace,
War
| Keywords:
bury, Croesus, fathers, sons
«And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.»
«But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
cities, fathers, incense, incensed, Jerusalem, Judah, kings, Kings and Queens, King and Queen, offerings, of our own, plenty, pour, pour forth, pour out, princes, queen, Queen of, Queen of Heaven, the Queen, The Streets, victual, victuals, whatsoever
«And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, / Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
abundant, by no means, fathers, forgiving, fourth, fourth generation, gracious, iniquity, long-suffering, longsuffering, merciful, No Mercy, proclaimed, The Children, The Third, Thousands, transgression, visiting
«Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
a hundred thousand, characters, distinction, eminence, equality, fathers, hundred thousand, idiots, income, inequalities, inequality, merit, mothers, ordinary people, spoiled
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