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- The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Annual message to Congress, December 1, 1862
- What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.
- Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), People Magazine, 09-19-11
- Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.
- Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), People Magazine, 09-19-11
- I know death is coming, and I do not fear it. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.
- Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), People Magazine, 09-19-11
- We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
- Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984), Remark in election meeting in Nagpur, India 1967
- True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels themthe desire to do rightis precisely the same.
- Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870), Letter to General P. G. T. Beauregard, October 3, 1865
- Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), A Mencken Chrestomathy
- Yes, God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.
- Ely Culbertson, Must We Fight Russia, chapter 5, 1946
- At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Letter to Mrs. Sarah Brydges Willyams, October 17, 1863
- Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
- Will Durant and Arial Durant, The Lessons of History, Chapter 11, 1968
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