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Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Thomas Jefferson

Strong, Country, Stand

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Men, Long

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith

Nature, Human, Others

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Education, Government, Knowledge

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
Pope John Paul II

Life, Love, God

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
Epictetus

Wise, Two, Opinion

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

Life, Men, Football

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
Immanuel Kant

Knowledge, Intuition, Nor

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Change, Peace, Men

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.
Robert Mugabe

Country, Nation, Stay

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
Quentin Crisp

Thought, Means, Won

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
Hannah Arendt

Good, Freedom, May

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Force, Obedience, Legitimate

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.
David Bohm

Real, Revolution, Others

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
George Will

Good, Public, Mediocrity

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
Elihu Root

Government, Successful, Reason

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet

History, True, Real

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
Georges Bernanos

Men, May, Enough

Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
Terry Eagleton

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
Anne Tyler

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
John Charles Polanyi

Themselves, Authority, Scientists

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.
John Strachan

Feeling, Jesus, Christian

These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.
Frank B. Kellogg

Peace, Greatest, May

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.
Wilhelm Wundt

Time, Same, Results

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.
Jurgen Habermas

History, Able, Stand

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.
Joseph Butler

Nature, Good, Interest

The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.
Emanuel Swedenborg

Makes, Lord, Heaven

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
Algernon Sidney

God, Government, May

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
Algernon Sidney

Justice, Liberty, Laws

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.
Herbert Croly

Political, Direction, System

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