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- The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by… — Joseph Story
- On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try… — Sun Tzu
- To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe… — Christopher Hitchens
- I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities… — Robert Rauschenberg
- Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. — Faith Baldwin
- Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself… — Jack Heffron
- It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires… — Charles Duhigg
- Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because… — George Gaylord Simpson
- You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter — Tacitus
- The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is… — Wendy Lesser
- Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
- As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what… — Kenny Smith