A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
James Harrington

Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.
Sidney Sheldon

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
Jane Howard

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
Van Morrison

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
Bridget Riley

Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.
Chaka Khan

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.
Dennis Weaver

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
Frances Wright

Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

For myself, Queer Eye feeds more to my heart and my soul than as a platform for a career.
Kyan Douglas

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.
Moon Unit Zappa

I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
William McKinley

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.
Kim Wilde

I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
Dan Quayle

I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.
Antoine Fuqua

I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves.
Mick Fleetwood

I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this.
Michael York

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
Walter Jon Williams

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.
Miguel de Icaza

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
Bette Midler