#con

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#afford #aside #being #buy #care

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#been #conquer #found #had #latin

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#after #instruments #men #only #thought

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#assimilation #contact #fiction #genius #great

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#earlier #expressed #individual #many #miracles

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew? ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#believe #bring #converted #difficult #divinity

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#eloquence #necessary #nothing #saying #true

Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#extreme #gentlemen #i #ladies #living

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#come #conversations #europe #multilateral #must

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#even #freedom #individual #more #only