What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
Julius Caesar (Roman, 100BC-44BC)
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson (American, 1743-1826)
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
Thomas Jefferson
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Thomas Jefferson
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas Jefferson
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Thomas Jefferson
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Thomas Jefferson
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Thomas Jefferson
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Thomas Jefferson
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Thomas Jefferson
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
Thomas Jefferson
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Thomas Jefferson
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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Napoleon Bonaparte (French, 1769-1821)
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Action expresses priorities.
Mohandas Gandhi (Indian, 1869-1948)
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mohandas Gandhi
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
Mohandas Gandhi
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Mohandas Gandhi
Morality is contraband in war.
Mohandas Gandhi
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Mohandas Gandhi
Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
Mohandas Gandhi
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mohandas Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas Gandhi
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mohandas Gandhi
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mohandas Gandhi
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
Mohandas Gandhi
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A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill (English, 1874-1965)
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Winston Churchill
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Winston Churchill
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill
"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
Winston Churchill
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Winston Churchill
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Winston Churchill
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston Churchill
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
Winston Churchill
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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph Stalin (Russian, 1879-1953)
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