1 John Adams

1 Samuel Adams

4 Hannah Arendt

3 Aristotle

3 Marcus Aurelius

1 Claude Bernard

1 Norman Bethune

1 Ambrose Bierce

1 William Blake

3 Napoleon Bonaparte

1 Charlotte Bront

1 Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1 William Cullen Bryant

4 Edmund Burke

1 George Carlin

1 Thomas Carlyle

1 Coco Chanel

1 Anton Chekhov

11 Cicero

1 Arthur C. Clarke

2 Carl von Clausewitz

1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1 Confucious

1 Jacques-Yves Cousteau

1 Salvador Dali

1 Clarence Darrow

1 Charles Darwin

1 René Descartes

2 John Dewey

1 Marlene Dietrich

1 Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3 Arthur Conan Doyle

4 Albert Einstein

1 Dwight D. Eisenhower

4 Ralph Waldo Emerson

2 Epictetus

2 Epicurus

1 Euripides

1  Viktor E. Frankl

1 Benjamin Franklin

1 Khalil Gibran

17 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1 Frederick the Great

1 Stephen Hawking

6 Friedrich A. Hayek

2 Friedrich August von Hayek

2 Henry Hazlitt

1 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

2 Hegel

1 Katharine Hepburn

1 Hesiod

1 Hippocrates

2 Oliver Wendell Holmes

1 Homer

1 Elbert Hubbart

1 Victor Hugo

1 Aldous Huxley

1 Robert G. Ingersoll

1 Henry James

2 William James

5 Thomas Jefferson

1 Samuel Johnson

4 Juvenal

2 Immanuel Kant

5 John F. Kennedy

7 John Maynard Keynes

1 Soren Kierkegaard

1 Søren Kierkegaard

1 Henry Kissinger

1 Jack Layton

1 Bruce Lee

1 Vladimir Lenin

8 Abraham Lincoln

5 John Locke

1 Moses Maimonides

1 Groucho Marx

1 Marshall McLuhan

1 Golda Meir

1 H. L. Mencken

2 H.L. Mencken

1 John Stuart Mill

4 Ludwig von Mises

1 Michel de Montaigne

7 Montesquieu

1 Edward R. Murrow

7 Friedrich Nietzsche

3 Kilroy J. Oldster

1 George Orwell

3 Thomas Paine

1 Blaise Pascal

2 George S. Patton

1 Frederick S. Perls

1 John Pilger

4 Plato

6 Bias of Priene

1 Ayn Rand

1 Ronald Reagan

1 Ronald Reagan

1 François de La Rochefoucauld

1 Eleanor Roosevelt

1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1 Bertrand Russell

1 Carl Sagan

1 George Santayana

3 Jean-Paul Sartre

18 Arthur Schopenhauer

2 Arthur Schopenhauer

1 Seneca

10 Seneca

3 William Shakespeare

1 George Bernard Shaw

2 Fulton J. Sheen

10 Adam Smith

1 Betty Smith

5 Socrates

1 Susan Sontag

5 Sophocles

1 Stephen Spielberg

2 Baruch Spinoza

2 John Steinbeck

2 Tacitus

1 Alfred Lord Tennyson

1 Alvin Toffler

3 Leo Tolstoy

6 Mark Twain

3 Lao Tzu

1 Sun Tzu

4 Virgil

3 Voltaire

3 Kurt Vonnegut

1 George Washington

1 William Westmoreland

2 Oscar Wilde

1 W.B. Yeats

1 William Pitt the Younger
Montesquieu
Those Greek statesmen who lived under democratic government knew of no support for it other than virtue. Today, statesmen can tell us only of manufacturing, finances, wealth, and even luxury.
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Montesquieu
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Montesquieu
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of maturer age are already sunk into corruption.
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Montesquieu
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Montesquieu
Government is like everything else in this world: if it is to be preserved, it must first be loved.
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Montesquieu
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Montesquieu
Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in these it is not always found. It is there only when there is no abuse of power. But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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