Benjamin F. Wade Quotes

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

Benjamin F. Wade

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 27, 1800 - March 2, 1878

Topics

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When my son was born, I decided I wasn't really into working 12 hours a day. That slowed me down a little bit.

Jim McKelvey

SonDayMeDownBornLittle

A national investment bank can invest to provide us with the foundations of shared and ecologically sustainable growth: renewing the U.K.'s energy, digital and transport infrastructure which lags woefully behind other major economies.

Jeremy Corbyn

GrowthEnergyInvestmentDigitalUs

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

John Hume

LeaderPeopleThoughtNeverBeing

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

Ani DiFranco

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People work harder when conditions are worse.

Jeff Goldblum

WorkPeopleWorseHarderConditions

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

Jean Giraudoux

LiveWarNewAirEveryoneElement

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'

John Sayles

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If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

Roland Joffe

FootballEatingYouTideWrong

Emotional stability has not been America's gift to the world.

Michael Leunig

WorldGiftAmericaEmotionalBeen

How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.

Michael Moore

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In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

Louis Adolphe Thiers

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Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

Avery Brundage

MusicScienceLikeInternational

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