Astonishment Quote by James Madison

“We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As for past acts of depravity, we prefer to ignore those. Progress,…

— Steven Erikson

“Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history. Men will…

— Victor Hugo

How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we…

— Joseph Priestley

“Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history of old,…

— Victor Hugo

“Everything human … has its period: nations, like mortal men, advance only to decline; dismembered empire and diminished glory mark a crisis in the constitution;”

— Jeremy Paxman

The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory…

— Narendra Modi

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a…

— Henry Knox

“Every day as it comes should be welcomed and reduced forthwith into our own possession as if it were the finest day imaginable. What…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Most of us are not really so arrogant as to think we have a right to remold the world in our image. The best…

— Russell Kirk

Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be…

— Frederick Buechner

Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of…

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

“Is it true that man was once perfectly pure and innocent, and that he became degenerate by disobedience? No. The real truth is, and…

— Robert G. Ingersoll