We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015
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Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
—Thomas Browne, 1658Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
—Dorothy M. Richardson, 1923Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.
—Marya Mannes, 1958A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
—William James, 1902