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Favorite quotes...

"We... would rather die on our feet than live on our knees"... Franklin D. Roosevelt: Third Inaugural, January 20, 1941.**** "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too"... W. Somerset Maugham.**** "Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor, imbecility"... William Godwin: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice 1793.**** "Some have said it is not the business of private men to meddle with government: a bold, false, and dishonest saying which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave"... Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard: Cato's Letters, Vol. ii, No. 38, 1724.**** "The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition, and incompetence"... ELBERT HUBBARD: The Philistine, vol. 20.**** "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism"... GEORGE WASHINGTON: Farewell Address to the People of the United States, September, 1796.**** "Reality has a well-known liberal bias"... Steven Colbert **** "The difference between a politician and a statesman is: a politician thinks of the next election and a statesman thinks of the next generation"... James Freeman Clarke**** "There are only two kinds of Republicans... the evil fucks, and the ignorant fucks who ALLOW the evil fucks to manipulate them into voting against their own best interests"... Chiffon56

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