The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Ambrose Bierce
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known
as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most
warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
Ambrose Bierce
There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and
a wreck of his country.
Ambrose Bierce
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
Ambrose Bierce
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Ambrose Bierce
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody
war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Ambrose Bierce
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her
shadow.
Ambrose Bierce
