Quotes

Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

—D.H. Lawrence, 1920

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.

—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957

Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.

—John Fletcher, 1625

Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

—Charles I, 1636

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

—William Morris, 1882

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

—Pericles, c. 431 BC

It is not right for a ruler who has the nation in his charge, a man with so much on his mind, to sleep all night.

—Homer, c. 750 BC

When a coward sees a man he can beat, he becomes hungry for a fight.

—Chinua Achebe, 1960

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

—Virgil, c. 25 BC

All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

—Henry David Thoreau, 1849

Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.

—German proverb

Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC

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