The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
Ambrose Bierce
More from: Ambrose Bierce
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry. -
I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived. -
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums. -
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. -
We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.
More quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
- Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
- Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
- Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
- Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.