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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. – Herodotus

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. – David Hume

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone. – James Baldwin

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. – Jean de la Bruyere

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone? – Anna Letitia Barbauld

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. – Daniel Day-Lewis

All we ask is to be let alone. – Jefferson Davis

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work. – James Whistler

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. – George Canning

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her. – Ibrahim Babangida

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. – Bono

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. – Quintilian

When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality. – Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists. – Dennis Prager

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. – Thurgood Marshall

After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone. – Francesca Annis

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. – Charles de Gaulle

Worse there cannot be a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed. – Joseph Hume

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. – Benito Mussolini