The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
Mark Twain

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin Franklin

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
William Shakespeare

I bear a charmed life.
William Shakespeare

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
William Shakespeare

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. Eliot

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
Marcus Aurelius

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
James Madison

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
Woody Allen

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus