I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Frederick Douglass

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Julius Caesar

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Julius Caesar

Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected".
Julius Caesar

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
P. J. O'Rourke

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
Thomas Merton

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
Thomas Merton

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
Clint Eastwood

Let my enemies devour each other.
Salvador Dali

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Plutarch

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
Blaise Pascal

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Blaise Pascal

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
John Keats

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
John Locke

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
John Locke

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
John Locke

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.
Noam Chomsky