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“the victims chosen by the mobs at the time of the Stamp Act were struck not simply because they supported or were presumed to…

— Robert Middlekauff

And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a…

— Jonathan Swift

“The way of even the most justifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. The Professor's indignation found in itself a final…

— Joseph Conrad

“It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence, and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Why were the people who clung so fiercely to the notions of right and wrong the very same individuals that had the worst grasp…

— Wildbow

“Sometimes he felt as if he'd been born in the wrong century. The people of this time were all wrong for him, and he…

— Heather Massey

“I do not have to tell you there has been a disappointing retreat of progress in recent times, whatever it is we call progress,…

— Bernard Malamud

“as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century”

— Oscar Wilde

“Cathy smiled back ‘Rules were meant to be broken.’ ‘Don’t disagree,’ Oversteegen replied immediately. ‘Indeed they are. Providin’, however, that the one breakin’ the…

— David Weber

“But what shall we think of a governor's playing such pitiful tricks, and imposing so grossly on a poor ignorant boy! It was a…

— Sebastian Marshall

“And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and…

— Thomas Jefferson

“we simply can't drop everything and run away, can we?' A warm wind kicked up, ruffling through his thick, dark hair. Very softly, he…

— Meredith Duran