(56 quotes found)
“The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes”
Calvin Coolidge
“This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.”
Charles Krauthammer
“On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions”
Daniel Webster
“He [Chaucer] is a perpetual fountain of good sense.”
John Dryden
“Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“An improper mind is a perpetual feast”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.”
Bible
“Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.”
Robert Morley
“A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Now hast thou but one bare hour to live / And then thou must be damned perpetually! / Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,/ That time may cease and midnight never come.”
Christopher Marlowe