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“In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.”

Has Beens Done Church Education Greater Difficulty Regard Legislature Clergymen

Author:John Strachan

“We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we cannot submit. God is greater than the United States, and when the Government conflicts with heaven, we will be ranged under the banner of heaven and against the Government...Polygamy is a divine institution. It has been banded down direct from God. The United States cannot abolish it. No nation on the earth can prevent it, nor all the nations of the earth combined...I defy the United States; I will obey God.”

Believe Has Beens States Government Earth Law Heaven Nations United United States Greater Honesty Divine Morality Exercise Conflict Direct Institutions Purity Submit Abolish Banner Polygamy

Author:John Taylor

“The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.”

Has Beens States Religion Belief Greater Periods Profound Affair Intense Cruelty Dogmatic Anti Religious Morality And Religion Religious Dogma

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“For most of the world, there's no greater symbol of America than the Statue of Liberty. It has been an inspiration to generations of immigrants. One of these immigrants was a poet-writer named Ameen Rihani. Gazing at her lamp held high, he wondered whether her sister might be erected in the lands of his Arab forefathers. Here is how he put it: "When will you turn your face toward the East, oh Liberty?"”

World Has Beens Inspiration Might America Faces Turns Liberty Greater Generations Land Poet East Symbols Immigrants Your Face Lamps Statues Gazing Forefathers Statue Of Liberty

Author:George W. Bush

“If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.”

Ifs Has Beens Greater Poet Could Have Been

Author:Nanao Sakaki

“Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and bust....Under this Government, there is an entirely new framework for economic management in place.”

Has Beens Government Greater Economic Management Decades Cycles Swings Framework Counterparts Continental

Author:Tony Blair

“Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals? The contrary of this has been inferred by all accurate observers of the conduct of mankind; and the inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided among a number than when it is to fall singly upon one.”

Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers

“No, 'cause, I mean, the expectation for me is I'm gonna try my best to win the tournament. But it's the people that sort of are in the media, are in the press, and the people that read it are the ones that, you know, see the expectation getting bigger or greater or, you know, how my performances have been going, whatnot.”

People Knows Trying Mean Has Beens Winning Causes Know How Greater Media Expectations Performances Bigger Presses Tournaments

Author:Andy Murray

“Some people think that the people they lead are too stupid to be told the truth, and thus they must be lied to, in order for a greater good to be accomplished. Some people believe in the system that has been set up, where the strongest among us is going to lead us in a fight, otherwise everyone is the same. That's the doctrine of pirates.”

People Thinking Believe Has Beens Order Fighting Greater Stupid Doctrine Accomplished Strongest Lied Pirate Greater Good

Author:Zach McGowan

“I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people's revolution.”

People Has Beens Problem Used Leader Greater Dangerous Revolution Vietnamese Mao Greater Power

Author:Lynne Stewart

“The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.”

Has Beens Poor Greater Century Charity Jew Obligation Captives

Author:Elliott Abrams

“Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.”

Has Beens Greater Office Remains Unions Threat Ira Paisley

Author:Enoch Powell

“Free trade has been proven, time and again, as a reliable path to economic development. It pushes the public and private sectors alike toward greater accountability and transparency. It lifts people out of poverty, and while it can force unsettling changes on a society, those changes prove to be worthwhile in a very short time.”

“The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.”

Wells Has Beens Philosophy Realizing Wealth Class Greater Failing Taxes Rate Saved Income Progressive Taxation Consumed Income Tax Progressive Taxation

Book:Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism

Source: Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism

“Those of us who have been blessed with worldly success have an even greater responsibility to make an impact with our time, talents, and resources.”

Has Beens Responsibility Greater Talent Resources Blessed Impact Our Time Worldly

Author:John Wooden

“Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how the change has been brought about, upon the methods by which the physical results have been reached, and in what spirit and for what purpose the fruits of that change are used. Because a higher standard of living, a greater productiveness and a command over nature are not good in and of themselves does not mean that we cannot make good of them, that they cannot be a source of inner strength.”