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In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.

—William Petty, 1690

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

—Herbert Hoover, 1936

I 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, 1960

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

—Susan Sontag, 1977

Whatever 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, 1965

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

—Martin Luther, c. 1530

Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.

—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC

The gods play games with men as balls.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

—Herman Melville, 1853

We 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, 1848

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387