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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Bertrand Russell

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston Churchill

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Winston Churchill

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

habit

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

society

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Bertrand Russell

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.

Henry David Thoreau

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Simone de Beauvoir

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Winston Churchill

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Salvador Dalí /

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Bertrand Russell

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

John Stuart Mill

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It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

fear

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Bertrand Russell

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Henry David Thoreau

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

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

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Bertrand Russell

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Henry David Thoreau

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Henry David Thoreau

I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Henry David Thoreau

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

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