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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
Education is the development of power and ideal.
No place is a place until it has found its poet.
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.
I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
The longer the title, the less important the job.
absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
His brothers were the type; he was the variation.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
The future is an infinite succession of presents.
Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.
Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
Bill Clinton outshines John Adams in that regard.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.
If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.
Justice is restoring order, not furthering chaos.
Imagine, for a moment, that you are the universe.
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
There's a different use for different strategies.
Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.
I'm not a psychic. I don't look at a crystal ball.
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
Gravity is more powerful where there's more stuff.
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.
There has never been nationhood without falsehood.
If historians are not skeptical, they are nothing.
You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.
It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
Life means progress, and progress means suffering.
Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.
Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
Great contests generally excite great animosities.