We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015
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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, 1960The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.
—Francis Galton, 1883It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80Jesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
—Margaret Halsey, 1946