The repository contains 88 quotes in the category “Classics.”
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Mark Twain
1835 — 1910
The English have really everything in common with the Americans, except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900
Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1809 — 1892
"Charge of the Light Brigade" (1864)
Authority forgets a dying king.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1809 — 1892
For the past two weeks, you’ve been reading about a bad break. Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I might have been given a bad break, but I’ve got an awful lot to live for.
Lou Gehrig
1903 — 1941
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Patrick Henry
1736 — 1799
Virginia House of Burgesses
March 23, 1775
It was a dark and stormy night...
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1803 — 1873
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1803 — 1873
Close doesn’t count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Frank Robinson
1935 —
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire
1694 — 1778
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
1694 — 1778
When fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make lemonade.
Andrew Carnegie
1835 — 1919
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
1841 — 1935
Schenck v. United States (249 U.S. 47)
March 3, 1919
Live fast; die young; leave a good-looking corpse behind.
James Dean
1931 — 1955
You can’t win them all.
Connie Mack
1862 — 1956
All that is gold does not glitter.
J.R.R. Tolkien
1892 — 1973
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Victor Frankl
1905 — 1997
Moderation in the protection of liberty is no virtue; extremism in the defense of freedom is no vice.
Senator Barry Goldwater
1909 — 1998
This is the beginning of the end.
Charles Talleyrand
1754 — 1835
I think, therefore I am.
Rene Descartes
1596 — 1650
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