Quotes of Proper - somelinesforyou

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

- Jimmy Carter

“ The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. ”

- Susan B. Anthony

“ All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples. A few gifted individuals manage to do both. ”

- Hector Hugh Munro

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

- Robert R. Young

“ It is much easier to be critical that to be correct. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Bishop Long has never received the legal amount of compensation he is due by law,... How To Maximize Your Clergy Salary and Benefits Package. ”

- David Epstein

“ You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. ”

- Alan Paton

“ Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessite, And take it weel, that we may not eschu, And namely that that to us alle is due. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ 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

“ It is easier to be critical than correct. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper. ”

- Gail Carson Levine

“ As it is not proper to cure the eyes without the head, nor the head without the body, so neither is it proper to cure the body without the soul. ”

- Unknown

“ It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. ”

- Max Frisch

“ Style may be defined as the proper words in the proper places. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ We teach them proper principles and let them govern themselves. ”

- Prophet Joseph Smith

“ It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma… which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. ”

- Edgar Allen Poe

“ Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest. ”

- John Winthrop

“ Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. ”

- Polybius

“ The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge. ”

- Seneca

“ There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue. ”

- Cicero

“ The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment. ”

- Bruce Lee

“ In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born. ”

- William Ralph Inge
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