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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

A classic since 1953 with over 20,000 quotes from over 3,000 authors.


Famous Last Words

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American Quotations

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The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations


Last Words of Saints and Sinners

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America's God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations

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The Law

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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

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The Stupidest Things Ever Said by Politicians

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The 776 Even Stupider Things Ever Said

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Quotable Quotes

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The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time

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2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs

Invaluable sampler of witticisms, epigrams, sayings, bon mots, platitudes and insights chosen for their brevity and pithiness.


Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts Funny Sayings

A stupendous collection of quotes, quips, epigrams, witticisms, and humorous comments for personal enjoyment and ready reference.


Quick Quips and Quotes; 532 Things I Wish I Had Said

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Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

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Quotations for Public Speakers

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Liberty - The American Revolution

This compelling series traces the events leading up to the war and America's fight for freedom.


Founding Fathers

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Libertarianism: A Primer

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The Libertarian Reader

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Thomas Paine: Collected Writings

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Lord ActonLiberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
Franklin P. AdamsTo err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
John AdamsI shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.
John Quincy AdamsThe highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected, in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
AesopNo act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Lisa AltherI’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Marcus Aurelius AntoninusMen exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.
Marcus Aurelius AntoninusThe best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.
Matthew ArnoldBut each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will.
Saint AugustineNear our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night, when I [at the age of sixteen] had played until dark on the sandlot with some other juvenile delinquents, we went to shake that tree and carry off its fruit. From it we carried off huge loads, not to feast on, but to throw to the pigs, although we did eat a few ourselves. We did it just because it was forbidden.
Ben H. BagdikianLetting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly, to correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment.
James BaldwinThe price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Tallulah BankheadNobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah BankheadCocaine habit forming? Of course not. I ought to know, I've been using it for years.
Dan BaumThe country's first drug ban explicitly targeted the opium of "the heathen Chinee." Cocaine was first banned in the south to prevent an uprising of hopped-up "cocainized Negroes.
Judge David BazelonMembers of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.
Samuel BeckettWe are all born mad. Some remain so.
Richard BernsteinThe whole point of the liberal revolution that gave rise to the 1960’s was to free us from somebody else’s dogma, but now the same people…are striving to impose on others a secularized religion…disguising it behind innocuous labels like ‘diversity training’ and ‘respect for difference.’
Daniel Joseph BerriganBut how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently,
how shall we do this in a bad time?
Sir Walter BesantTolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.
Mary McLeod BethuneIf we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.
Ambrose BierceThe gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose BierceOptimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
Ambrose BierceIdiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
Leon BlumA free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
Napoleon BonaparteIf they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Daniel BoorstinWe must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
William E. BorahNo more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more pernicious sentiment ever tormented the heart than the barbarous desire to do so. The field of inquiry should remain open, and the right of debate must be regarded as a sacred right.
Charles BradlaughWithout free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people.
Justice William J. BrennanAll ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance – unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].
Kingman BrewsterUniversities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
Bellamy BrooksEgotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
Patrick J. BuchananThe village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught.
William F. Buckley, Jr.Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.
Edward G. Bulwer-LyttonPatience is not passive;
on the contrary, it is active;
it is concentrated strength.
Luther BurbankIt is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
Edmund BurkeToleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Albert CamusAbsolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.
Al CaponeWhen I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.
Joyce CaryIt is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.
Zechariah Chafee, Jr.You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.
John Jay ChapmanAttack another’s rights and you destroy your own.
Alexander ChaseThe peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened by convictions.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonA puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonTolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions.
Chinese ProverbDeal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
Noam ChomskyIf we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
Sir Winston ChurchillI have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Sir Winston ChurchillCourage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Sir Winston ChurchillA fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Justice Tom C. ClarkFrom the standpoint of freedom of speech and the press, it is enough to point out that the state has no legitimate interest in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them... It is not the business of government to suppress real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine.
Arthur C. ClarkePoliticians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
William Kingdon CliffordIt is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
John CogleyTolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeI have seen gross intolerance show in support of tolerance.
Henry Steele CommagerAmerica was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation.
Henry Steele CommagerCensorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion... In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.
ConfuciusIf I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
ConfuciusTell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand.
Georges CourtelineIf it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
Norman CousinsI cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.
Patrick CoxThe holier-than-thou activists who blame the population for not spending more money on their personal crusades are worse than aggravating. They encourage the repudiation of personal responsibility by spreading the lie that support of a government program fulfills individual moral duty.
Czech ProverbThe big thieves hang the little ones.
Clarence S. DarrowThere is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
Clarence S. DarrowThe best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
Salvador De MadariagaHe is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.
Michel De MontaigneA man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
Alexis de TocquevilleIn order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils it creates…
Alan DershowitzIf we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.
Rene DescartesIf 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.


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