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- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Rambler #18
- We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), Letter to Carl Jung, January 17, 1909
- The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963), Journey to Freedom (1969)
- In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speech, September 22, 1936
- Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times, Sept 30 1923
- I bet you if I had met him [Trotsky] and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Saturday Evening Post, Nov. 6, 1926
- Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Weekly Articles (1981), first published 1927
- First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
- Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941
- To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
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