I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915
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Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
—Rudy Giuliani, 1999Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington, 1783Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
—E.B. White, 1944Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
—Jane Austen, 1818Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751