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magna Quotes and Quotations
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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. Ambrose Bierce | top
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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. Van Wyck Brooks | top
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Edmund Burke | top
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Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign. Edward Coke | top
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The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right. John Conyers | top
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There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world. J. William Fulbright | top
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I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed. Thomas Goodwin | top
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The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. Thomas Huxley | top
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The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. Frederick Law Olmsted | top
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I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit. Elliot Richardson | top
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The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich. Saadi | top
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich. Saadi | top
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It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. Zachary Taylor | top
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We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands. Robert Toombs | top
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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time. Leon Trotsky | top
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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. Virginia Woolf | top
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others. Xun Zi | top
