I 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, 1940
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The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
—Plato, c. 348 BCDoing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.
—Judge Learned Hand, 1944The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665I went [to war] because I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1863No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnThere’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.
—Phillis Wheatley, 1774Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal, c. 121