Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125Every country has the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCAn election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866One great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports and trifle away all their time insipidly is because they have found their curiosity baulked and their inquiries neglected.
—John Locke, 1693In 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, 1774Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCLaughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
—Philip Sidney, 1582He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972