H. G. Wells
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.