When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918
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Without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.
—George Washington, 1781One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977The whole secret of fencing consists but in two things, to give and not to receive.
—Molière, 1670All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
—David Brower, 1992Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
—Anacharsis, c. 550 BCIn every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.
—Phillis Wheatley, 1774Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.
—Horace, 23 BCDrive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCHistories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They indeed are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.
—Italo Calvino, 1957