Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.Ambrose Bierce
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.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
Wit: the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.Ambrose Bierce
