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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

—Paul Valéry, 1943

The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.

—Charles P. Berkey, 1946

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. 

—Abraham Lincoln

He who sings frightens away his ills.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

—Jane Austen, 1815

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.

—John F. Kennedy, 1960

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

—Pliny the Elder, c. 77

Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.

—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875

Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”

—William Shakespeare, c. 1599

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

—Cyril Connolly, 1944

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170