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If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government be… — James Madison
Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and… — Ronald Reagan
... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence,… — Unknown Author
There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part… — Charles Eliot Norton
The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been… — George Monbiot
Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard. — Henry Ford
We are now in the midst of our first television war ... the television environment [is] total and therefore invisible. Along with the computer, it… — Herman Melville
The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then returns to a… — Carl Jung
The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding what you want,… — Jeanette Winterson
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is… — Immanuel Kant
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture,… — Douglas Hofstadter
Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained. — Grant Morrison
It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate… — D. H. Lawrence
For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is… — Marquis de Sade
There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened… — Joseph Conrad
Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end. — Lord Byron
Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each… — Tennessee Williams
After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its… — Primo Levi
They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in… — Plutarch
For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did.… — Hilaire Belloc

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