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
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles Lindbergh, 1948The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
—Herodotus, c. 440 BCFrom hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, “He is better off.”
—Edgar Watson Howe, 1911Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665