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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

I cannot accept fraud.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.