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All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
—Al Smith, 1933The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCNo nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.
—Catullus, c. 60 BCGovernments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
—Dionysius of Halicarnassus, c. 20 BCMy mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
—Roald Dahl, 1984