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Liars need to have good memories.
What people want, above all, is order.
For violence or fraud can create no right.
To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.
I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day.
Human requirements are the inspiration for art.
It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun
The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.
In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.
Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.
That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.
The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.
The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.
The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.
In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.
People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty.
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?
What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse
That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.
The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.
It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden
Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.
The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.