Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961
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Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476There’s folks ’ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
—George Eliot, 1859War is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508At night comes counsel to the wise.
—Menander, c. 300 BCRevolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1918An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.
—Ethel Merman, c. 1955I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of these two has the grander view?
—Victor Hugo, 1862