The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.
James Monroe

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

The system should treat all user input as sacred.
Jef Raskin

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.
Bernard Devoto

The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.
David Kirk

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.
Greta Scacchi

There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.
Paul Castellano

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
Johnny Depp

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.
David O. McKay

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo

This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.
Kenny Marchant

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
James Monroe

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
Lewis Mumford

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Oprah Winfrey

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.
Mike Schmidt

We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.
Daniel Libeskind

We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.
Walter Salles

We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff.
Christopher Atkins