"A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They deride the apprehensions of those who foresee, that licentiousness will prove, as it ever has proved, fatal to liberty."

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Source : Fisher Ames, John Thornton Kirkland (1854). “Works of Fisher Ames: With a selection from his speeches and correspondence”, p.346, Burt Franklin

Fisher Ames

#Believe Quotes #Evil Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.”
“Meet me inside the Edge of the Icepack penguin enclosure in at four fifteen" she says, sounding just like Kim Possible. If Kim Possible ever asked people to meet her inside a penguin enclosures.”
“Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For reasons he couldnâ€™t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the dirt road, her eyes pools of absolute sorrow, her light brown hair glowing in the splinters of sunlight that forced their way through the trees.”
“30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.”
“Let me start by telling you this: I have never used steroids. Period. I don't know how to say it any more clearly than that. Never.”

Source : "Orioles' Palmeiro Suspended for Steroids" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 1, 2005.
“The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It's all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.”

Source : "Elected Officials Deny Climate Science as Climate-Related Losses Grow" by Shawn Lawrence Otto, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2011.
“In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.”

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