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
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I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994I never know quite when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, Dammit, Thurber, stop writing. She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph. Or my daughter will look up from the dinner table and ask, Is he sick? No, my wife says, he’s writing something.
—James Thurber, 1955“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866Freedom 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, 1999No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverbBut of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
—Genesis, c. 900 BCThere is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913Egypt was the mother of magicians.
—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC