Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. – Anne Bradstreet
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. – Anne Bradstreet

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. – Anne Bradstreet
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. – Anne Bradstreet
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. – Anne Bradstreet
Weve been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. Were just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it. – Debbie Wasserman Schultz
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? — the cuckoo clock. – Graham Greene and Orson Wells, The Third Man