You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
—Mario Cuomo, 1985
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I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCI detest war. It spoils armies.
—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCThose who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCThere’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600