Quotes of Fitting - somelinesforyou

“ America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America. ”

- Jimmy Carter

“ There can be no liberty that isn't earned. ”

- Robert R. Young

“ Property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are a particular kind of human right. ”

- David Friedman

“ Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964. ”

- Clarence Thomas

“ They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill. ”

- Edmund Morrison

“ Do not wish to be anything but what you are. ”

- Saint Francis de Sales

“ Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly. ”

- Francis de Sales

“ No matter where I run, I meet myself there. ”

- Dorothy Fields

“ No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself. ”

- William Penn

“ The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. ”

- W. H. Auden

“ BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow. ”

- Jonathan Westover

“ Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. ”

- Susan B. Anthony

“ Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. ”

- Jimmy Carter

“ Be sure you are right, then go ahead. ”

- David Crockett

“ And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights. ”

- Carol Bellamy

“ The first amendment problems were paramount for us. So we decided that the ban violated our rights and our advertisers' rights. ”

- James Rogers

“ When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism. ”

- Shirin Ebadi

“ Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child. ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer. ”

- Josh Charles

“ It is right to give every man his due. ”

- Plato

“ It is a much deserved victory. ”

- Gerard Houllier

“ It is possible to be different and still be all right. ”

- Anne Wilson Schaef

“ The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases. ”

- Carl Gustav Jung

“ The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. ”

- Carl Jung

“ I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. ”

- Clarence Thomas

“ I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights. ”

- David Duke

“ Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. ”

- Ayn Rand
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