Without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.
—George Washington, 1781
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—Joseph Conrad, 1900Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
—Mao Zedong, 1938If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H.G. Wells, 1920Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949