"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

#Character Quotes #Gun Quotes #Political Quotes

“Be yourself, it's the best thing you can do.”
“I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.”
“Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.”

Source : "Justice". Introduction to the book edited by Alan Ryan, 1993.
“Oh, but a real princess would know that hard work ennobles the soul,' Rose objected. 'That would be one of the signs.”
“Oh,to be walking through Leningrad white night after white night, the dawn to dusk all smelting together like platinum ore, Tatiana thought, turning away to the wall, again to the wall, the wall, as ever. Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won't you, and I'll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everyone does. But my innocence is forever gone.”
“Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.”

Source : Sir Edward Coke (1797). “Institutes of the laws of England: containg the exposition of many ancient and other statutes ...”, p.147
“Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.”

Source : Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My life in baseball: the true record”
“What we are saying is that on top of the warming trend there is a long-periodic oscillation that will probably lead to a lower temperature increase than we would expect from the current trend during the next years.”

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