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“Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.”

Values Sports Team Prove Members Baseball West Sports Team Baseball Team West Point

Author:Omar N. Bradley

“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.”

Knows Giving Individual Balance Please Prove Members Dollars Charity Injustice Congress Appropriate Permit Acts Of Charity Public Money

Author:Davy Crockett

“Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the public should feel himself an owner of public property-such as a Town Park-and should therefore respect it as his own, they are saying something which all our experience proves to be completely false. No man feels of public property that it is his own; no man will treat it with the care of the affection of a thing which is his own.”

Source: An Essay on the Restoration of Property

“Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.”

Prove Members Tradition Absence Chosen Doctrine Cult Persecution Liturgy

Book:The Astonishing World: Essays

Source: The Astonishing World: Essays

“I was wrong about [Jack] Keane. He is the exception that proves the rule. I was certainly right about the fact that he is a member of the warrior class.”

Facts Class Prove Members Warrior Exception

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are not themselves members of the middle class, not by a long shot, which means they've searched for other ways to prove to voters that they care about their concerns and understand what middle class workers are going through.”

Way Mean Long Care Class Middle Trump Prove Members Shots Concern Clinton Workers Middle Class Voters Long Shots

Author:Tamara Keith

“It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.”

Humanity Religious Birth Prove Members Embrace Privilege Nationality

Book:Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing - Illustrated

Source: Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing - Illustrated