No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl, 1990The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.
—Judge Learned Hand, 1944An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
—John Winthrop, 1630These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
—Flannery O’Connor, 1964To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbIn politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830