#noble

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#back #bargains #been #benefit #carry

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. ↗

— James Madison

#enterprise #every #expanded #mind #noble

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it. ↗

— David Mallet

#forms #great #inspires #noble #people

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain. ↗

— Thomas Malory

#death #hath #knights #lord #love

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop. ↗

— Tacitus

#appreciated #best #character #develop #most

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#died #how #idea #ideas #men

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today. ↗

— Mark Crispin Miller

#barnes #decorate #exceptions #faces #few

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble. ↗

— Michael Moore

#ever #good #good movie #making #movie

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. ↗

— Tecumseh

#death #divide #for the day #go #great

You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#afraid #canada #capital #causes #noble