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• [H]eavens and honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me, but only my followers' base and ignominious treasons, makes me betake me to my heels.
• ... la liberté d'expression, la liberté de religion, la liberté de vivre à l'abri du besoin, et la liberté de vivre à l'abri de la peur.
• Habitual superfluities become actual wants.
• Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.
• And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
• For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
• For want of a rider the battle was lost.
• For want of a horse the rider was lost.
• For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
• What do you want to eat?  I want you to leave.  I never wanted to go back to live with my mother.  I want to be an astronaut when I'm older.  I don't want him to marry Gloria, I want him to marry me!  What do you want from me?  Do you want anything from the shops?
• For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find / What wants in blood and spirits, swelled with wind.
• You have a gift, sir (thank your education), / Will never let you want.
• The mowing-machine always wanted oiling. Barnet turned it under Jacob's window, and it creaked—creaked, and rattled across the lawn and creaked again.
• I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.
• Not what we wish, but what we want, / Oh, let thy grace supply!
• he that hath skill to be a pilot wants a ship; and he that could govern a commonwealth[...]wants means to exercise his worth, hath not a poor office to manage.
• The disposition, the manners, and the thoughts are all before it; where any of those are wanting or imperfect, so much wants or is imperfect in the imitation of human life.
• Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
• And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.