#not

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

#bestow #claim #freedom #gift #keep

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives. ↗

— George William Norris

#american #american lives #asking #certain #congress

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#beneath #bottom #crust #earth #election

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#bosnia #get #important #inability #like

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying. ↗

— Frederick Law Olmsted

#cannot #condition #consider #either #gratifying

Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S. ↗

— John Olver

#cannot #clearly #democratic #democratic iraq #iraq

The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million. ↗

— John Olver

#another #atmosphere #atmospheric #china #co2

I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#battle #be patient #blessed #brethren #continue

When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity. ↗

— Origen

#being #building #built #calm #fine

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating. ↗

— Leonard Orr

#bathtub #every #every time #fantastic #get