He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
AMBROSE BIERCEThe partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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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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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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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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Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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