"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them."
--Pierre Beaumarchais
"There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.'
--Denis Diderot
"But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
--Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
"We know more about fighting in the woods than you, ask our advice and you will be better for it."
--An unknown American Indian to the Marquis de Montcalm
"A most ill-judged advertisement from the War Office has set all the ministries on fire and made them believe we are going to war, which is, I hope, the furthest from our thoughts."
--Duke of Newcastle to the Earl of Albemarle, October 10th 1754
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