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We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

Henry Knox

We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.

Ahmed Yassin

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Hermann Broch

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Stephen Spender

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Elizabeth Bowen

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cather

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

Ludwig von Mises

Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.

Richard M. Hunt

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exaltedî

Friedrich Nietzsche

The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Abraham Maslow

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties

Alexander MacLaren

Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification.

Robert Dato

If wishes were horses, there would be an easy explanation for all this horseshit

Dave Barry

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Diane Arbus

Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.

Martin Van Buren

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

Tony DeLiso

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

Honore de Balzac

It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! . . . . By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

William Collins

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