Famous quotes containing the word give:
“Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of men ... ours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“I cannot give advice. How can I when I do not authorise success. I authorise it alright. Smile.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)