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Source: Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860

“If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner stone of our liberty.”

Ifs May Passion Sound Liberty Stones Corners Trials Prisoner Patriot Weary Alarms Vogue Limited Time Corpus Habeas Corpus

Book:Memoires of the Last Ten years of the Reign of George the Second

Source: Memoires of the Last Ten years of the Reign of George the Second

“I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I repudiate, as ridiculously absurd, that much-lauded but nowhere accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that "all men are born equal.”

Men Born Republican Equal Stones Slavery Corners Absurd Sentiments Dogma Reserves Edifice

Book:Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond: Of South Carolina

Source: Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond: Of South Carolina

“Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a mouth large enough to swallow any church, and from that time forward the religious people will be citing that remark of the politician to substantiate the inspiration of the Scriptures.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The perfect world, by Adam trod, Was the first temple--built by God-- His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one.”

World Firsts Perfect Built Stones Corners Temples Adam Pillars A Perfect World

Book:The poetical works of N.P. Willis

Source: The poetical works of N.P. Willis

“The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.”

Source: Essays, English and American

“Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.”

Self Virtue Stones Corners Self Respect

Author:John Herschel

“China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelts proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.”

Fighting Nations President Four Stones Independence Corners China Liberation Oppressed Charter Proclamation President Roosevelt

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.”

People Thinking Kind Sometimes Decision Stones Corners Engraved

Author:Emily Yoffe

“The family is the corner stone of our society.”

Family Stones My Family Corners Our Family Our Society

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.”

May Hours Break Cry Stones Sticks Corners Bones Idle Domestic Violence Sticks And Stones

Author:Eric Idle

“No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.”

Sometimes Stories Rivers Stones Corners

Book:Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”

“The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.”

Stones Corners Builder

Author:Bob Marley

“That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it, and so do I - even here, even now - as it sweeps us like leaves into his backseat corner, dancing us to shreds against the stones. V'la l'bon vent, v'a l'joli vent. I though we'd silenced it for good. But the smallest thing can wake the wind@ a word, a sign, even a death. There's no such thing as a trivial thing. Everything costs; it all adds up until finally the balance shifts and we're gone again, back on the road, telling ourselves - well maybe next time”

Wells Made Moving Mother Next Felt Gone Wind Balance Cost Stones Add Dancing Corners Smallest Next Time Backseat Trivial Things Maybe Next Time

Author:Joanne Harris

“Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.”

Stones Corners Breakfast Hamburgers

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!”

May Stills Fire Tree Feet Flower Bed Red Standing Stones Rounds Corners Grass Roof Weary Leafs

Book:The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“I am like a huge rough stone...and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with something else, striking with accelerated force...thus I will become a smooth and polished shaft in the quiver of the Almightly.”

Force Huge Stones Corners Contact Rough Smooth Polished Quiver

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.”

“For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself. For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES.”

Needs Firsts Ideas Done Lying Women Justice Rights Demand Stones Injustice Corners Graves Womens Rights Mistress Cradle Wrong Ideas

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.”

Men Wisdom Streets Wall Stones Intelligence Corners Intellect Thrown Fragments Crushed Pipe Street Corners

Author:George Sand

“Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one takes away a corner stone and the edifice comes toppling down. It should be like an engine with movable parts. We need not fix the position of any one lever; that is to be adjusted from time to time as the latest observations indicate. The aim of the theorist is to know the train of wheels which the lever sets in motion-that binding of the parts which is the soul of the engine.”

Knows Needs Should Soul Science Courses Knowledge Position Building Models Stones Aim Structure Train Corners Admire Observation Wheels Engines Handsome Binding Theorists Edifice Levers

Author:Arthur Eddington

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