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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham Lincoln

Interfere, Safeguard, Liberties

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington

Religion, Experience, Reason

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden

Success, Courage, Struggle

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert Camus

Good, Friends, Opinion

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
W. Clement Stone

Success, Trying, Try

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand Russell

Women, Men, Him

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
Albert Schweitzer

Truth, True, Simple

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Charles Dickens

Girl, Before, Old

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
Henry Miller

Through, Whatever, Needs

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
William Feather

Success, Work, Hard

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
Bobby Knight

Basketball, Four, Physical

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
Havelock Ellis

Knowledge, Wish, Old

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.
Dionne Warwick

Woman, Understand, Water

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Emma Goldman

Freedom, Political, Human

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
George A. Sheehan

Done, Against, Wishes

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Thomas Mann

Time, Through, Quite

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Lie, Violence, Concealed

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
John Cusack

Friendship, Trust, Coffee

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield

Education, Freedom, Justice

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
Cyril Connolly

Small, Few, Number

And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.
Shimon Peres

Against, Worked, Resolution

I've still kind of maintained a low profile but people still kind of recognize you and will come up to you, and that's taken a bit of getting used to.
Leona Lewis

Used, Getting, Taken

Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.
John Hume

Control, Public, Situation

However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.
John Polkinghorne

Life, Nature, God

That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever.
Christo

Nothing, Stay, Forever

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
Peter Fonda

Business, Society, Morality

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.
Mitch Daniels

Hope, Government, Big

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.
Joe Namath

Life, Work, Family

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
Seamus Heaney

Hope, Started, Hopes

As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
Adam Clarke

God, Truth, Enemy

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