There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862
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Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962No 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, 1215All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
—Al Smith, 1933Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
—Laurie Colwin, 1978There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
—Nancy Spain, 1956My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.
—Bill Gates, 1995The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.
—Samuel Purchas, 1613