Famous quotes containing the words reverse and/or brute:
“During the late war [the American Revolution] I had an infallible rule for deciding what [Great Britain] would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)