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- The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- I do not believe in a fate that falls on all men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), On Holland, Generally Speaking, 1928
- Whatever limits us, we call Fate.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Fate, The Conduct of Life, 1860
- Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech, San Francisco, May 13, 1903
- No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of few and carried in the hearts of many.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Speech to Boston World Affaires Council
- The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
- James Madison (1751 - 1836), The Federalist Papers, 1788
- How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- One reassuring thing about modern art is that things can't be as bad as they are painted.
- M. Walthall Jackson
- Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
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