I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles Lindbergh, 1948
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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, 1215Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
—Voltaire, 1723Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCThe wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621In tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.
—Jonathan Schell, 2000I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921