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
I wouldn’t want to belong to a club that would accept me as a member.
Groucho Marx
1890 — 1977
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain
1835 — 1910
You see things as they are and say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”
George Bernard Shaw
1856 — 1950
It was a dark and stormy night...
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1803 — 1873
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882
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
You can’t win them all.
Connie Mack
1862 — 1956
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)
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
We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting and end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand.
President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865
Illinois Republican State Convention
June 1858
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
I have been a stranger in a strange land.
Man doth not live by bread only.
Early to bed and early to rise make a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
He that lieth down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
Remember that time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
The rotten apple spoils his companion.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
The English have really everything in common with the Americans, except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900
If a man write a better book, or make a better mouse-trap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882
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