This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861
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All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCBest is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCNothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 BCThe sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799It would seem that in history it’s never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
—Sybille Bedford, 1963The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
—Tom Robbins, 1976The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957Imitate the ass in his love to his master.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388