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All happy families resemble each other; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) "Anna Karenina...
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.
-- Harry S Truman (1884-1972) quoted in Look, 3 April 1953...
If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely, one day war will abolish us from the earth.
-- Harry S Truman (1884-1972) speech in Independence, MO, 1966...
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robe of the tyrant it has deposed.
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912- )...
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. [Perhaps even these things will some day be pleasant to remember.
] -- Virgil (70-19 BCE) "The Aeneid" (19 BCE)...
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. [I fear the Greeks though bearing gifts.
] - Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BCE) "The Aeneid" (19 BCE)...
Possunt quia posse videntur.
Let the punishment of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing, and a man condemned to public works will serve the country, and is a living lesson.
Voltaire (1694-1778) "Philosophi...
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens and to give it to the other.
-- Voltaire (1694-1778) "Philosophical Dictionary" Money...
Reason is, of all things in the world, the most hurtful to a reasoning human being.

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