The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787
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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
—Lawrence Durrell, 1957Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.
—The Simpsons, 1993A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905There is no crime without precedent.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things, and once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812Think rich. Look poor.
—Andy Warhol, 1975I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925What water gives, water takes away.
—Portuguese proverb