Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.
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Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.
England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although she has not lost her liberty or fallen into anarchy, yet we behold the population of England crushed to the earth by the superincumbent weight of debt and taxation, which may one day terminate in revolution.
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see something, that something should be seen. Because we can say something, there is something that must be said.
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will.
Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.
If there's anything you absolutely hate, why, it must be unconstitutional. Or, if there's anything you absolutely have to have, it must be required by the Constitution. That's where we are. That is utterly mindless.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.
Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
Industrialised countries must take the responsibility of helping poorer countries in the climate change action plan.
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