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In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.


Søren Kierkegaard

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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
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SØREN KIERKEGAARD Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
SAMUEL DAVIES Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
SAMUEL DAVIES Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state
SAMUEL DAVIES Every priest has a parish, so to speak.
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DEYTH BANGER Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treat...
JAMES LANKFORD That was much worse than expected, and the underlying numbers look weak across the board.
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MICHAEL EVERY The moderation is certainly very slow in arriving, even allowing for the usual lag in data, and thes...
MICHAEL EVERY They are concerned about inflation first and foremost but they already know that was going to happen...
MICHAEL EVERY With the import side holding up more strongly than exports for now, the Reserve Bank is unlikely to ...
MICHAEL EVERY Redwood, in my opinion, was one of the smartest fishermen around and a scientific fishermen.
DICK EVERY The residential housing market is well off its peak now. The Reserve Bank remains on hold for now wi...
MICHAEL EVERY The underlying message from the data is that at the coal face producers are seeing higher costs, but...
MICHAEL EVERY Since the Reserve Bank of Australia raised rates in March, the housing market has just been going si...
MICHAEL EVERY Tom Joiner was the dock master. He would book people to fish over on the boardwalk.
DICK EVERY I played bad this afternoon. I don't even want to talk about the morning right now. I putted badly. ...
MATT EVERY I've been working really hard lately. Normally, it just comes to me pretty easy, but this is differe...
MATT EVERY Every country in the region and every protagonist has something to do to ensure that the peace proce...
HUBERT VEDRINE ...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civiliz...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized ...
JAMES F. COOPER Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and ou...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and ...
MAHATMA GANDHI I've been to almost every country in the world, and the most frustrating thing for me has been t...
ANDREA BOCELLI . . . the press and the pulpit have in every age and every nation been on the side of the exploiting...
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BIBLE Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted...
GEORGE ORWELL We live in an age where virtually every sector in every country on the planet is contaminated by pir...
ERIC NICOLI Every country has the government it deserves.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Every country has the government it deserves.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until ...
C.S. LEWIS [E.M.M.’s contract] has been renewed every year without controversy,
CHRIS WELCH There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.
TIBOR FISCHER Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country...
XAVIER RUDD All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between...
LYN YUTANG Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the drea...
HENRY KNOX Every country has its core product, ... In this country the full-size pickup is the big dog.
BRENT DEWAR At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELL There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes n...
HENRY ELLIS Hardy was every loose-limbed cowboy in warn denim, every pair of blue eyes, every battered pickup, e...
LISA KLEYPAS Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
MARY MCCARTHY Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy.
MO IBRAHIM In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.
JAMES BEATTIE It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare eme...
M. H. ABRAMS I am satisfied that every one of the worst-case scenarios was wrong. Total NATO deaths from hostile ...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly hear...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way.
BRIGITTE BARDOT The war in my country has destroyed every one I have ever loved.
ENISA MEDJEDOVIC Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
SAMUEL GOMPERS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how...
CHARLES STANLEY In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For ev...
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HAROLD HAMM The selling point is that everybody has power in their house and multiple power jacks in every room....
IDAROSE SYLVESTER Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a c...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Every opinion has been heard and that every issue is on the table.
BRIAN DOLAN Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX We try to buy as much American-made shirts as we can and stuff to sell. It's very difficult to c...
TOBY KEITH Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The U.S. ranks behind virtually every other developed country when it comes to seat belt use, and ne...
ALAN MCMILLAN In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public...
JOHN LE CARRE There is something for every age and every interest.
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JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
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GERI HALLIWELL Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you're Democrat, Republican, i...
GLENN BECK Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteen...
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SAUDI ARABIA I'm tired of the U.S. getting involved in every country's individual disputes.
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JOHN BOLTON Every major disease that kills people in this country has an oxidative stress component.
JAMES JOSEPH Molly Ringwald, she's a natural talent. Every girl in this country related to that girl.
HARRY DEAN STANTON Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
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EUGENE V. DEBS Every law is an infraction of liberty.
JEREMY BENTHAM Beautiful, glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country!
MARY TODD LINCOLN She has truly been remarkable in every respect.
LARRY MARSHALL Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD Nothing, nothing, nothing, no error, no crime is so absolutely repugnant to God as everything which ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD What kind of power is it that dares intrude between me and my bride, the bride I myself have chosen ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed tha...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The matter is quite simple. The bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of s...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, th...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD What labels me, negates me.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had falle...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonde...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highes...
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