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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Love, America

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
Abraham Lincoln

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln

Best, Enemy, Friend

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill

Respect, Law, Ten

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Liberty, Around

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Men, Rather

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston Churchill

Single, May, Act

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mahatma Gandhi

Mind, Body, Torture

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.
Kurt Cobain

Time, Good, Everything

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Tony Robbins

Power, Experience, Human

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
Chanakya

Secrets, Anybody, Share

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson

Women, Children, Political

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Jim Morrison

Parents, Person, Relatives

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Makes, Stronger

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion, Enough

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.
Charlie Sheen

Time, Poetry, Sorry

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury

Reading, Stop, Culture

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
Chanakya

Fear, Soon, Attack

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
Oliver Stone

Power, Jealousy, Envy

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon

Best, Hate, Yourself

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire

Trying, Play, Anyone

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
Robert Kennedy

Him, Find, Shall

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
George Washington Carver

Fear, Hate, Others

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Sun Tzu

Good, Best, War

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.
Thomas S. Monson

Faith, Thoughts, House

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
Chanakya

Family, Single, Son

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.
Danielle Dax

Nature, Time, Insecurity

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
Sun Tzu

Decision, Quality, Victim

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
Anthony de Mello

Work, Religion, Politics

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