Common sense isn't.
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| [D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Letter to Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain. U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers: General, 1933, vol. 1, p. 210, Washington: Government Printing Office (1950). ~ |
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| Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii. Stanza 27. ~ |
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| He is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. |
| ~ Adam Smith, -Book IV, Chapter 2. ~ |
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| I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, Nov. 17, 1851, to Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Letters of Herman Melville, eds. Merrell R. Davis and William H. Gilman (1960). ~ |
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| Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building. |
| ~ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), U.S. columnist, lecturer. Syndicated newspaper column. “My Day,” (April 16, 1945). ~ |
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| As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. White-Jacket (1850), ch. 27, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 5, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| Quote of the moment |
| The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. |
| ~ Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 108. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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