“For the sake of the country, the conservative cause, the Republican party and even his own long-term career -- he ought to resign.”
William Safire
“To answer my children’s question, I asked them to identify the values of the Lincoln-era Democrats and Republicans. They correctly identified that the slave states (then the Democrats) stood for states’ rights and against civil rights for African-Americans. Lincoln’s and Hamlin’s views on the issue of states’ rights can best be summarized by Lincoln’s response in the Douglas debates: “There is no right to do what’s wrong.””
kristan peters-hamlin
“For the sake of parity of representation between the two countries, the high commissioner of Pakistan who is currently in India will be required to returned to Islamabad,”
Jaswant Singh
“Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake”
William Blake
“Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.”
Mark Twain
“Karen- Grace. It's Christmas, for goodness sake. Think about the baby Jesus: up in that tower, letting his hair down... so that the three wise men can climb up and spin the dradel and see if there are six more weeks of winter.”
Will & Grace
“For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum”
Thomas Jefferson