Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
AMBROSE BIERCELife – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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