In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.
—William Petty, 1690
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Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.
—John F. Kennedy, 1960I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Whatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCThe gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCHe that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387