America Quote by Sarah Vowell

“If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost…

— Alexander the Great

“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same…

— Immanuel Kant

“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive…

— Abraham Lincoln

“It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have…

— Oscar Wilde

“It is my humble intention to compassionately allow everyone and everything, especially my self, to be exactly as we are...”

— Maximus Freeman

“The consequence of this, morally, is that the individual is of less significance than the state. The individual’s empirical, day-to-day interests are of a…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“Assail me not with noble policy, for I care not at all for platitude. And surrender such tedious detail to greater minds than mine…

— Steve Earle

“For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted” (Ps. 109:16,”

— Henry Cloud

Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and]…

— Arrian

“Lad of Athens, faithful be To thyself, And Mystery - All the rest is Perjury”

— Emily Dickinson

“These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered…

— Plutarch

“...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward…

— Daniel Mendelsohn