Additional Essay Prompts-Quotations
                                
Agree or disagree with the following quotations, using two well-
 reasoned examples from history, literature, current events, or
                      personal experience.

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions,
as well as when to adhere to them.
  -John Stuart Mill

What you fail to understand is the power of hate. It can fill the
heart as surely as love can.
  -Earl Felton

The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of
happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws
ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of
patriots and legislators.
  -David Hume

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a
volcano of revolution.
  -Havelock Ellis

All of life is a foreign country.
  -Jack Kerouac

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so
sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as
possibility!
  -Soren Kierkegaard

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been
forgotten.
  -B.F. Skinner

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
  -Grover Cleveland

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a
miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
  -James Madison

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is
poor reading.
  -Thomas Hardy

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to
the fore only when its recipient has no power.
  -Milan Kundera

Law never is, but is always about to be.
  -Benjamin Cardozo

A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one, and the
real one.
  -J.P. Morgan

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent
perspiration.
  -Thomas Alva Edison

It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics),
that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be
wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be
admired."

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity
is not without comforts and hopes.
  -Francis Bacon