GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.
– Ambrose Bierce
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- God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. – Ambrose Bierce
- Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence. – Ambrose Bierce
- All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum. – AE Samaan
- Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism. – AE Samaan
- It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy. – Rose Wilder Lane
- Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated. – Ambrose Bierce
- acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. – Ambrose Bierce
- ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith. – Ambrose Bierce
- diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one’s country. – Ambrose Bierce
- AMNESTY, n. The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. – Ambrose Bierce
- POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. – Ambrose Bierce
- You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. – Ambrose Bierce
- BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. – Ambrose Bierce
- History -“ An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce
- Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity. – Ambrose Bierce
- Marriage, n.: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. – Ambrose Bierce
- Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. – Ambrose Bierce
- Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke. – Ambrose Bierce
- Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live! – Ambrose Bierce
- So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter’s field I shall soon have both. What wealth! – Ambrose Bierce
- Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce
- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. – Ambrose Bierce
- The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff. – Ambrose Bierce
- In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent – Ambrose Bierce
- A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. – Ambrose Bierce
- You can’t win an argument with an argument. – Sukant Ratnakar
- The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. – Stephen E Ambrose
- An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God’s response. – Shannon L Alder
- Walk through the past and learn the way. I am walking through the present, taking action every day. I am preparing for the future in a great way. – Debasish Mridha
- What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry. – Oscar Wilde
- The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution. – Benjamin Rush
- Violence isn’t a Democrat or Republican problem. It’s an American problem, requiring an American solution. – DaShanne Stokes
- We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories. – Steven C Rockefeller
- The American family shattered for the simple reason that it was American, not global. – John F MacArthur Jr
- Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. – Robert Hughes
- People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American. – David Sedaris
- Does this mean that in some places I’m American and in some places I’m African American and in other places, by logical extension, I’m nobody? – Roberto Bolao
- I don’t believe in the Constitution because I’m American, I’m American because I believe in the Constitution. – JSB Morse
- When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical. – Ralph Ellison