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The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.

I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.