The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border.
--Pablo Casals, (1876-1973)
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
--Hannah Arendt
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
--Clarence Darrow, (1857-1938)
Just as appetite comes by eating so work brings inspiration.
--Igor Stravinsky, (1882-1971)
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
--Edmund Burke, (1729-1797)
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
--Samuel Butler, (1835-1902)
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
--Mark Twain
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
--Otto von Bismarck
The truth is the truth, whether it is told by Agamemnon or the man who keeps his pigs.
--Antonio Machado
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
--Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
--Albert Einstein
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
- -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832)
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
--James Monroe
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
--Oscar Ameringer
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
--Joseph Joubert, (1754-1824)
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
--Greek proverb
An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
--Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
-Voltaire (1694-1778)
In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy.
--John C. Sawhill (1936-2000)
Shadow owes its birth to light.
--John Gay, (1685-1732)
Without valleys there would be no peaks.
--Johnny Carson, (1925-2005)
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
--John Adams
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