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No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

In 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, 1864

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

Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.

—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305

One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.

—Ernst Jünger, 1977

Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?

—Amy Lowell, 1922

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

—Alexander the Great, c. 323 BC

He who is afraid of his own memories is cowardly, really cowardly.

—Elias Canetti, 1954

Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.

—Roman proverb

The god of music dwelleth out of doors.

—Edith M. Thomas, 1887

Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

—George Santayana, c. 1905

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.

—Zadie Smith, 2000