In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.
—Francis Grose, 1787
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Memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.
—Harriet Doerr, 1978Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
—Agnes Repplier, 1916In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.
—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.
—Tacitus, 117Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCSic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
—Daniel Boorstin, 1978