#notions

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#conceive #impossible #intimately #liberty #make

Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#did #education #elevation #emancipation #father

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family. ↗

— Rachel Griffiths

#family #found #good #greater #how

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements. ↗

— Pearl Bailey

#greatest #notions #seem #silliest #you

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. ↗

— George Byron

#his #honour #itself #notions #notwithstanding

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#difference #free #gender #nature #notions

A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#back #believed #chief #chief executive #crippling

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense. ↗

— Ron Paul

#cause #conceived #conscription #death #ever

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#bravery #certain #certain point #chivalry #frame

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#because #change #conservative #crimes #culture