"When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty."

-- Thomas Jefferson

#Inspirational Quotes #Peace Quotes #Atheist Quotes

“Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.”
“Every failure is a step to success.”

Source : William Whewell (1852). “Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England”, p.101, London : J.W. Parker ; Cambridge : J. Deighton
“The Brits always favor the underdog. There's an eccentricity to us, and I think you can see that through the fash- ion and the music and the way people look.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.”
“Assuredly, the size of (Cadel) Evans' heart will come to be compared to Phar Lap.”
“People want progress, but they don't want change.”
“Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly they make the same mistakes in their own speech, but they know-unconsciously, not as a set of rules they learned in school-when a sentence is incorrect.”

Source : Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.258, Vintage
“We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?”

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