in Quotes & Aphorisms (Ipse dixit)
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free," said Jefferson, "it expects what never was and never will be."
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Ipse dixit, latin locution that means: he said so.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free," said Jefferson, "it expects what never was and never will be."
This is what we believe.
If I look at the mass I will never act.
I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on.
I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.
You have to be! (Laughs) You might get shot!
I will not take "but" for an answer.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy.
They are shamelessly copying us.