Conducing Quotes

#1. We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Abraham Lincoln

#2. Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed ... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

Algernon Sidney

#3. What has happened to America's survival instincts?

Tina Brown

#4. Lucinda," she finally returned most cordially, "if I were to be marooned on a desert island for the remainder of my days and must needs choose between your company and that of an organ-grinder's flea-bitten monkey, I should not hesitate a moment before opting for the latter.

Kasey Michaels

#5. In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

Herbert Croly

#6. It's amazing how constant repetition can make even the most obvious truths irritating enough to disagree with.

Richard K. Morgan

#7. You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what's going on in Washington, D.C.

Eric Massa

#8. If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.

Stephen Chbosky

#9. For China to continue to enjoy economic prosperity, it needs to foster trusting international relationships, not tensions ... and it is important for China to understand this.

Shinzo Abe

#10. And so they lived for many a long year, as happy and lighthearted as the birds in the trees and the flowers on the hill in spring.

Jessica Day George

#11. Real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#12. You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

Val Kilmer

#13. Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

Mark Twain

#14. Not part of any London combination and you have to go a long way from London really to ... to throw that feeling off. So, it's right and fitting that the Beatles came from Liverpool. If they hadn't, I wouldn't have got involved. It wouldn't have interested me. And they wouldn't have hired me.

Derek Taylor

#15. Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Rene Descartes