The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972
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Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.
—Horace, 23 BCGood or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742Those who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men’s hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction.
—Francis Bacon, 1625In 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, 1774To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCIt has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mold, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1790