Quotes About Gouverneur

#1. I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn't exist anymore.

Sophie Kinsella

#2. If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#3. Each state enjoys sovereign power.

Gouverneur Morris

#4. Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.

Gouverneur Morris

#5. He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy; that the only ground of hope must be the morals of the people, but that these are, I fear, too corrupt.

Gouverneur Morris

#6. Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

Iris Murdoch

#7. Without access, rights are meaningless

Gloria Feldt

#8. Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

Gouverneur Morris

#9. Give the vote to the people who have no property, and they will sell them to the rich, who will be able to buy them.

Gouverneur Morris

#10. If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

Gouverneur Morris

#11. They (the French) have taken genius instead of reason for their guide, adopted experiment instead of experience, and wander in the dark because they prefer lightning to light.

Gouverneur Morris

#12. In adopting the republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better, for worse, but, what few men do with their wives, I took it knowing all its bad qualities.

Gouverneur Morris

#13. College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.

Noel Gallagher

#14. There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish ... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion.

Gouverneur Morris

#15. I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

Colm Meaney

#16. Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

Andrew Solomon

#17. When he came home that night he was in a very somber mood, having begun to see at last how those might be right who had laughed at him for his faith in America.

Upton Sinclair

#18. The teaching here is simply this, that anything allowed in the heart which is contrary to the will of God, let it seem ever so insignificant, or be ever so deeply hidden, will cause us to fall before our enemies.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#19. Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

Gouverneur Morris

#20. The river that never run Dry, always have a generous amend to flourish

Bobby Vj

#21. The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They
always did ... they always will. They will have the same effect here as
elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper
spheres.

Gouverneur Morris

#22. You dug this grave. Go lie in it.

Leigh Bardugo

#23. China approaches fashion with strong enthusiasm. And I believe that this enthusiasm can be translated into something interesting, economically speaking. Not only for my brand, but also for other brands.

Giorgio Armani

#24. This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.

Gouverneur Morris

#25. The trial of Zenger in 1735 was the germ of American freedom, the morning star of that liberty which subsequently revolutionized America.

Gouverneur Morris

#26. Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

Thomas Jefferson