Without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.
—George Washington, 1781
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Pushing someone toward liberty does not set her free; taking the chains off a prisoner does not give him freedom.
—Ken Bugul, 1982I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830The belly is the teacher of the arts and bestower of invention.
—Persius, c. 55History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.
—Malcolm X, 1964These useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverbIt is not right for a ruler who has the nation in his charge, a man with so much on his mind, to sleep all night.
—Homer, c. 750 BCI’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
—William Penn, 1693