What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

I'll put everything I have in my capacity at the service of the noble cause and noble values of the U.N. and the U.N. Charter.

We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.

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