Quotes of Trample - somelinesforyou

“ We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ Dive on them and squash them if you must. ”

- Jeremy Taylor

“ I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. ”

- Terry Pratchett

“ I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain. ”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

“ What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted. ”

- Oliver Cromwell

“ We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away. ”

- R. Southwell

“ They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them. ”

- George Earle Buckle

“ I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding. ”

- Martin Luther

“ Enthusiasm is: A quiet spiritual strength: An inner glow: Faith in action: Greatest asset in the world: Beats money power influence: Tramples over prejudice. ”

- Unknown

“ The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over. ”

- Dick Cheney

“ I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me… I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people. ”

- Karen Black

“ Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail. ”

- Charles Austin Beard
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