#accord

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. ↗

— John Adams

#agent #choice #implies #intellectual #liberty

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature. ↗

— William Adams

#children #conscience #desiring #end #five

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#began #book #came #certainly #combine

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou. ↗

— Akhenaton

#act #action #change #establish #ever

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct. ↗

— Samuel Alito

#accordance #applicable #been #both #canons

I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me. ↗

— Ralph Allen

#any #concerns #i #life #me

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things. ↗

— William Ames

#been #could #eternity #existence #nor

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#desires #duty #our #powers #useful

TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#always #anybody #based #billion #internet

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#live #men #most #rather #reason