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«Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism»
«A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.»
Author: Honore de Balzac (Novelist) | About: Husbands | Keywords: First to, go to sleep
«If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.»
«In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions»
«If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who would be first to breast the swelling tide and step alone upon the other side - if we could know!»
«All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall»
Author: Harry S Truman (President) | About: Action, History, Nations | Keywords: First to, generals
«Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.»
«If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty,»
«Conscience is but a word that cowards use, / Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.»
«Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.»

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