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Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.


Frank B. Kellogg


#been #centuries #defense #every

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.


Frank B. Kellogg


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In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.


Aly Khan


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I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me.


Klaus Kinski


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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.


Leo Rosten


#admires #after #centuries #conservative #dead

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.


Bertrand Russell


#almost #attributable #centuries #century #distinguishes

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.


Marquis de Sade


#anarchy #any #appear #centuries #compare

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.


Antoine de Saint-Exupery


#centuries #civilization #course #customs #difficult

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.


Albert Schweitzer


#brother #centuries #several #younger #younger brother

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.


Walter Scott


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