Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796
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God sells us all things at the price of labor.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E.M. Forster, 1951Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
—Homer, c. 750 BCAt the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
—Frederick Douglass, 1855Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
—Voltaire, 1769There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
—Booth Tarkington, 1914A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863The play is the tragedy “Man,” And its hero the conqueror worm.
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1843Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things—but each according to its nature—and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1821