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A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. -- Jerry Seinfeld
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. -- Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. -- Robert Benchley
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. -- Edward Teller
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. -- William James
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. -- Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. -- Colette
A hero is someone who can keep his mouth shut when he is right. -- Yiddish Proverb
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong. -- Piet Hein, Grooks
A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men. -- Anonymous, Also used in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. -- Victor Hugo
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. -- Henry David Thoreau
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. -- George Wald
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. -- Jean Paul Richter
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. -- Robertson Davies
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. -- Baltasar Gracian
A wise man hears one word and understands two. -- Yiddish Proverb
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. -- Galileo Galilei
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. -- Samuel Johnson
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it. -- Jef Mallett, Frazz, 04-04-07
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. -- Earl Mac Rauch, from Buckaroo Bansai
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. -- Evan Esar
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. -- Edith Wharton
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde
Art is science made clear. -- Jean Cocteau
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. -- John Stuart Mill
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. -- Dr. Seuss
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. -- Paul Valery
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. -- Arnold Lobel
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. -- G. K. Chesterton
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. -- William Ralph Inge
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. -- Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), Dreams and Facts
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. -- Gertrude Stein
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. -- Edgard Varese
Everything you can imagine is real. -- Pablo Picasso
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. -- W. Somerset Maugham
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. -- Chinese Proverb
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. -- W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil, 1925
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. -- Steven Wright
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco
I have often depended on the blindness of strangers. -- Adrienne E. Gusoff
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether. -- Alfred North Whitehead
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light. -- Isaac Newton
I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe. -- Richard Gere, to The Guardian (UK), June 2002
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -- Douglas Adams
I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four, A Scandal in Bohemia
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. -- Ian Fleming
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. -- Herb Caen
I think it would be a good idea. -- Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -- Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. -- James Thurber
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. -- Tallulah Bankhead
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln
If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. -- Hermann Hesse
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. -- Rene Descartes
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. -- Oscar Wilde
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
In the fight between you and the world, back the world. -- Frank Zappa
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. Albert Einstein
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. -- Thomas H. Huxley
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. -- William Safire
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. -- Charles Baudelaire
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. -- William Blake
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. -- H. L. Mencken
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. -- Jerome K. Jerome
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong. -- G. K. Chesterton
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. -- Edmund Burke
It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it. -- Robert E. Lee, Statement at the Battle of Fredericksburg (13th December 1862)
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Laughter is the closest distance between two people. -- Victor Borge
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. -- Thornton Wilder
Life is just a bowl of pits. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. -- Albert Einstein
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. -- Sir William Osler
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some. -- Jose Marti
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. -- Albert Schweitzer
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. -- William Hazlitt
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so. -- Bertrand Russell
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. -- Hesketh Pearson
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. -- Al Franken, Oh, the Things I Know , 2002
Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that! -- Matt Frewer, as Dr. Mike Stratford in Doctor, Doctor
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. -- Isaac Asimov
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. -- Thomas Mann
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. -- W. H. Auden
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. -- Marie Curie
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. -- James Thurber
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. -- Elbert Hubbard
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. -- Edward Abbey
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. -- Marie Curie, Letter to her brother, 1894
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. -- William Feather
One old friend is better than two new ones. -- Yiddish Proverb
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a book review
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. -- George Bernard Shaw
Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else. -- Hob Broun
Reality continues to ruin my life. -- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein, (attributed)
Reality is something you rise above. -- Liza Minnelli
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick, How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later , 1978
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. -- Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. -- Sidney J. Harris
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. -- John Russell
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know. -- Cullen Hightower
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. -- George Santayana
Seek simplicity, and distrust it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. -- Oscar Wilde
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. -- Oscar Wilde
Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone. -- Gertrude Stein
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. -- Jane Austen, Emma
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard, Artist Descending a Staircase
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. -- Arthur Stringer, The Silver Poppy
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. -- Henry David Thoreau
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. -- Laurence J. Peter
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. -- Dorothy Parker
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. -- Euripides
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone. -- Hodding Carter
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth! -- Henry David Thoreau
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. -- Aldous Huxley
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. -- Doug Larson
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing. -- William J. Broad
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. -- Mark Twain
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. -- H. G. Wells, 1903
The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. -- William Gibson
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. -- John Sladek
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. -- Thomas Carlyle
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. -- William James
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. -- David Russell
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. -- P. B. Medawar
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. -- Esther Dyson, Interview in Time Magazine, October 2005
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. -- Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
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. -- Anatole France, The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. -- Samuel Butler
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time. -- George Bernard Shaw
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. -- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. -- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903), act I
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. -- Stephen Jay Gould
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. -- Albert Einstein
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. -- H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu , first line
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. -- George F. Will
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath. -- Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. -- Henry James
The only paradise is paradise lost. -- Marcel Proust
The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble. -- Ellen DeGeneres
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. -- Henry Stimson
The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past. -- William Faulkner
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. -- Elizabeth Taylor
The purpose of life is to fight maturity. -- Dick Werthimer
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. -- Dorothy Nevill
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. -- Albert Einstein
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. -- Mark Twain
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. -- Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. -- Aesop
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up (1936)
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. -- A. A. Milne
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. -- C. S. Lewis
The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks . -- Yiddish Proverb
The world only goes round by misunderstanding. -- Charles Baudelaire
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. -- George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893), act III
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. -- Louis Pasteur
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. -- Oscar Wilde
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously. -- Thomas Sowell
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves. -- Albert Guinon
There are too many people, and too few human beings. -- Robert Zend
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. -- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903), act 4
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. -- Marshall McLuhan
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. -- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862
There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. -- Norman Mailer, Armies Of The Night
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. -- Cicero, De Divinatione
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. -- Salvador Dali
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. -- William James
There it was, hidden in alphabetical order. -- Rita Holt
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. -- Oscar Levant
They always talk who never think. -- Matthew Prior
This book fills a much-needed gap. -- Moses Hadas
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. -- Wolfgang Pauli, on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. -- Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising. -- Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. -- John Lithgow
Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. -- Marilyn Manson, I Don't Like The Media But The Media Likes Me - Columbine statement
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all. -- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
To be great is to be misunderstood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Essay on Self-Reliance
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. -- Franklin P. Adams
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. -- James F. Byrnes
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. -- Walt Kelly, Pogo (comic strip)
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -- Anais Nin
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. -- Charles Caleb Colton
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. -- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. -- David Russell
What happens when the future has come and gone? -- Robert Half
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? -- Henry David Thoreau
What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say? -- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) Age and Death
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. -- Paul Valery
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. -- Hermann Hesse
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. -- Mark Twain
When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business. -- Lenny Bruce
Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. -- George Iles
Why be a man when you can be a success? -- Bertolt Brecht
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails. -- Yiddish proverb
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. -- Sam Levenson
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave. -- Sydney Smith
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to. -- Thomas Hardy
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion. -- Robert Chapman
Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts. -- Saki
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. -- Mark Twain
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard Feynman
Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is. -- Will Rogers, Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein
If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. -- John A. Wheeler
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. -- Enrico Fermi
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. -- Margaret Bonnano
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man. -- Leon Trotsky, Diary in Exile (1959)
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. -- Don Herold
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. -- Quentin Crisp
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. -- Charles Austin Beard