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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
Samuel Adams

Life, Best, Together

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden

Love, Laugh, Find

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John Adams

Knowledge, Liberty, Cannot

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
Plutarch

Real, Destroyer, Benefits

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Person, Leave, Behind

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Oppression, Dislike, Oppress

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Good, Happy, Saying

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Carl Sagan

Science, School, College

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
Alexander Hamilton

Nature, Human, Old

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Fact, Act, Wants

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.
Mitt Romney

Best, Children, Cannot

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke

Long, Liberty, Cannot

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
Aldous Huxley

Art, While, Possible

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.
Margaret Thatcher

Show, Themselves, While

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Against, Prince, Evils

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer

Happy, Found, Serve

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Carl Jung

Life, Long, Trouble

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
P. J. O'Rourke

Women, Number, Sexual

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
Carl Jung

Life, Problem, Last

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Herbert Simon

Poverty, Rather, Attention

The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.
Hillary Clinton

Trying, Until, Started

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mean, Whole, Used

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
Lily Tomlin

Stress, Reality, Touch

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.
Jesus Christ

Sin, Stone, Cast

Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
E. O. Wilson

Selfish, Win, Between

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Karl Marx

Together, Labor, Workers

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
Augustus Hare

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Men, Give, Become

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer

Happy, Found, Serve

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
Sophocles

Money, Men, Minds

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