Zuidweg En Quotes & Sayings

Government exists to protect the product of men's labor, their property, and therewith life and liberty. The notion that man possesses inalienable natural rights, that they belong to him as an individual prior, both in time and in sanctity, to any civil society, and that civil societies exist for and acquire their legitimacy from ensuring those rights, is an invention of modern philosophy. Rights, like the other terms discussed in this chapter, are new in modernity, not a part of the common-sense language of politics or of classical political philosophy." from "Closing of the American Mind" by Allan Bloom, Saul Bellow, Andrew Ferguson — Allan Bloom

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest ... — Katherine Cecil Thurston

I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this day are still my publishers and are like my musical family, my second family - they took me in and taught me what a good song is. — Lights

You can't have a market without government, because governments create the rules of competition and enforce fairness in the markets, and they build the institutions within which competition takes place. — Douglas Massey

Something my life has taught me is not to see things in black and white. People are neither all good nor all bad. — Jewel

I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line. — Amy Hempel

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin

Three turns should do it. — J.K. Rowling

Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools. — David Addington

We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from. — Barack Obama

You have only one chance to raise your child. — Jackie Kennedy