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Where are we then? The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principles are the apostles of civilization and intelligence. Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a taste for law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true? – Alexis de Tocqueville	added by Normando 2 years ago
Find your meanest friend and make them your workout buddy to help motivate you and discourage you from bailing on them. – Holly Rilinger	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Look at the war in Iraq and the mess that we’re in, i would never have handled it that way…Two minutes after we leave, there’s going to be a revolution, and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy will take over. And he’ll have weapons of mass destruction, which Saddam [Hussein] didn’t have. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I was trying to get my inner rage, when you’re a teenager, you’re always kind of meanest to the people who love you the most. – Rose Byrne	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Excuse me, for I must speak plainly. If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. – Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but". – Henry Ward Beecher	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but. – Henry Ward Beecher	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. – Jonathan Swift	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. – William Wordsworth	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Where are we then? The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principles are the apostles of civilization and intelligence. Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a taste for law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true?

– Alexis de Tocqueville

added by Normando
2 years ago

Find your meanest friend and make them your workout buddy to help motivate you and discourage you from bailing on them.

– Holly Rilinger

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Look at the war in Iraq and the mess that we’re in, i would never have handled it that way…Two minutes after we leave, there’s going to be a revolution, and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy will take over. And he’ll have weapons of mass destruction, which Saddam [Hussein] didn’t have.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I was trying to get my inner rage, when you’re a teenager, you’re always kind of meanest to the people who love you the most.

– Rose Byrne

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Excuse me, for I must speak plainly. If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance

– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

– Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but".

– Henry Ward Beecher

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

– William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but.

– Henry Ward Beecher

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

– Benjamin Franklin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

– Jonathan Swift

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

– William Wordsworth

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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