Precious

Famous quotes containing the word precious:

    “It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that’s precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows!... eternal fountain of our feelings!—’tis here I trace thee—and this is thy divinity which stirs within me ...—all comes from thee, great—great SENSORIUM of the world!”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “It is true that liberty is precious—so precious that it must be rationed.”
    —Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)