Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity. – Ambrose Bierce
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. – Ambrose Bierce

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity. – Ambrose Bierce
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. – Ambrose Bierce
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. – Ambrose Bierce
The territorial state is such an ancient form of society – here in Europe it dates back thousands of years – that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland. – Christian Lous Lange