Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936
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These useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCEducation is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
—Malcolm X, 1964Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.
—John Paul Jones, 1778I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
—Frederick Douglass, 1852One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCI find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967