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The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.

If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.

In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.