No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915
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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, 1864I 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, 1940Seafarers 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. 1305One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
—Alexander the Great, c. 323 BCHe who is afraid of his own memories is cowardly, really cowardly.
—Elias Canetti, 1954Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbThe god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000