I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940
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When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.
—James Baldwin, 1953Everyone knows about everybody in Hollywood—who sleeps with whom, who doesn’t sleep, who does it standing on his head or in the dentist’s chair.
—Rock Hudson, 1982Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986Civilization, a much-abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
—Genesis, c. 900 BCAll the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
—Al Smith, 1933A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleThere lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
—Samuel Johnson, 1763My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44