Theodore C. Sorensen Quotes

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

Theodore C. Sorensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 8, 1928 - October 31, 2010

Topics

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Be assured that, as certain as Congress transcends its assigned limits and usurps powers never conferred, or stretches those conferred beyond the proper limits, so surely will the fruits of its usurpation pass into the hands of the Executive. In seeking to become master, it but makes a master in the person of the President.

John C. Calhoun

LimitsHandsPersonBecomeNever

Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.

Andre Weil

MenMoralityMathematician

And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.

Robert Mueller

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When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.

Slavoj Zizek

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Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.

Roger Federer

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The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.

Robin Morgan

WomenPowerControlStandChurch

You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.

Robert Wise

YouLookBackFindSometimesWhy

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

Mary Douglas

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I don't have a problem with any defenders. I've always played against great defenders.

Diego Costa

GreatProblemAlwaysAgainstPlayed

It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.

Conor Oberst

LoseKindMusicallyEverythingOut

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

Conrad Veidt

I AmThinkKnowNowPrecisionOrder

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

Colin Farrell

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