Joseph Gurney Cannon famous quotes

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I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows.
-- Joseph Gurney Cannon

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Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.
-- Joseph Gurney Cannon

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In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.
-- Joseph Gurney Cannon

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A majority can do anything.
-- Joseph Gurney Cannon

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The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.
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This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.
One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

Joseph Gurney Cannon famous quotes

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