Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932
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Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1893It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1838Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
—Aldous Huxley, 1926Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909What is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCPeople revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005I have often said that if I wish to name-drop, I have only to list my ex-friends.
—Norman Podhoretz, 1999Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903