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Commenttiny.ag/ig3zfjp4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (484 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Commenttiny.ag/1i8zitnu · ★★☆☆ Fair (892 ratings) · submitted 1998 ·
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.
Commenttiny.ag/ry72cat0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Commenttiny.ag/ls2p5dcg · ★★☆☆ Fair (283 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
Commenttiny.ag/jwhevbgo · ★★☆☆ Fair (304 ratings) · submitted 1997
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Commenttiny.ag/uoqbw63r · ★★☆☆ Fair (517 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, in Science and Religion
Commenttiny.ag/tldrjftc · ★★☆☆ Fair (1115 ratings) · submitted 1997
Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in War and Peace
The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)Commenttiny.ag/mqbuthzj · ★★☆☆ Fair (894 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Brad Johnson
I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
Commenttiny.ag/phdwhmxt · ★★☆☆ Fair (632 ratings) · submitted 1997
I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero, in War and Peace
Commenttiny.ag/9bumiall · ★★☆☆ Fair (355 ratings) · submitted 1997
There's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Commenttiny.ag/xgpm1arf · ★★☆☆ Fair (1071 ratings) · submitted 1999
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Commenttiny.ag/4xolnjrp · ★★☆☆ Fair (502 ratings) · submitted 1997
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
Commenttiny.ag/fjegbeuo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1058 ratings) · submitted 1997
I think it would be a good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi, (when asked what he thought of Western civilization), in Law and Politics
Commenttiny.ag/64hrko9k · ★★☆☆ Fair (1211 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Commenttiny.ag/rdqgrf59 · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Commenttiny.ag/raffprlg · ★★☆☆ Fair (318 ratings) · submitted 1997
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.