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• History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

• It is good business men that are corrupting our bad politicians.

• Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.
• Everybody should believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink.
• A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
• If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
• I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.

• Nobody in this world is more secure than a man in a penitentiary. He is fed, clothed and housed. But he is not free to go and come as he pleases. He is watched, guarded and disciplined. There are millions of people in other lands who have the same kind of security. But we Americans have always believed that the only real security lies in liberty and opportunity.

• But no data is raw. It is always cooked. ... there can be no facts without theory.

• Things are more like they are now than they've ever been.

• History is more or less bunk.
• The question, "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking, "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
• There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.

• Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing.

• It is easier for an aggressor to kill when he does not see the appeasement displays and signals for surrender. Animals fighting close together can hardly avoid seeing the signals, but once man was able to use projectile weapons, these natural mechanisms to cut off the aggressor were weakened. The greater the range of combat, the easier killing became, and the push-button war of the twentieth century was the final step in distancing and depersonalizing adversaries.

• Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
• The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
• To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjectures.
• A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

• The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

• All would live long, but none would be old.
• Reckless youth makes rueful age.
• Gifts much expected are paid, not given.
• Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one.
• Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
• He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
• The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
• Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.
• A nod from a lord is breakfast for a fool.
• The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but still 'tis nonsense.
• If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
• 't is great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults, greater to tell him his.
• A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things.
• He is not well bred that cannot bear ill-breading in others.
• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
• A mob's a monster; heads enough but no brains.
• If you would like to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
• Here comes the orator, with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
• The first mistake in public business is going into it.
• Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
• Neglect kill injuries, revenge increases them.
• A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
• They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
• No nation was ever ruined by trade.
• Fish and visitors smell in three days.
• There never was a good war nor a bad peace.
• Wealth is not his that has it but his that enjoys it.
• Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning.
• Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

• It is tragic when a man outlives his body.

• There's no such thing as a free lunch.
• The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate each other to deal with one another and help one another.

• A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
• Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in.
• A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
• Good fences make good neighbors.
• Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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