As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986
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Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
—Vegetius, c. 385The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890To teach is to learn twice over.
—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.
—Samuel Johnson, 1779Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbIf there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
—Fanny Burney, 1782