“So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong”
Walter Bagehot
“I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.”
William Lloyd Garrison
“I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch- and I will be heard!”
“That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.”
Charlie Chaplin
“It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.”
Chuck Berry
“Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth”
William McKinley
“What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once”
Virginia Woolf
