"The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free..."

-- Utah Phillips

#Freedom Quotes #Eye Quotes #Giving Quotes

“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”
“We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.”

Source : Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.
“Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.”

Source : "POLITICO Interview: Gov. Bredesen". Interview with Alexander Burns, www.politico.com. February 24, 2009.
“Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.”

Source : "Rival Caesars". Book by Arthur Desmond, 1903.
“Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.”
“...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a trembling voice: â€œItâ€™s the ghost!”
“I started at the top and worked my way down.”

Source : Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, The Filmgoer's Book of Quotes (1973)
“We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we rescue ourselves.”

Source : Howard Mansfield (2001). “The Same Ax, Twice: Restoration and Renewal in a Throwaway Age”, p.12, UPNE

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