Quote by Edward Young
One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted h

One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, Wars glorious art, and gives immortal fame. – Edward Young

Other quotes by Edward Young

The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. – Edward Young

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Future
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. – Edward Young

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Death
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For one thing, I dont think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. – Steven Spielberg

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Weve got to keep an eye on the battle that we face – a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And theres only one way to beat and win that war – the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight. – James P. Hoffa

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We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? Its a delusion to think its gone away. – Kevin Costner

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You dont attack the grunts of Vietnam you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. Its the same thing with psychotherapy. – James Hillman

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You have to learn and keep learning. – Gil Scott-Heron

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It is the growling man who lives a dogs life. – Coleman Cox

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With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both money and awareness for the long-term rebuilding effort we must all support. – Brad Delson

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amazing

It isnt enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again? – Colin Powell

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