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- I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFO's, about the fact that they cross galaxies, or wherever they come from to visit us, and always end up in places like Fife, Alabama. Maybe these are not super-intelligent beings, man.
- Bill Hicks, Comedy routine
- Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty
- The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963
- The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
- J. William Fulbright (1905 - ), Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966
- I believe, and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
- William Henry Harrison (1773 - 1841), Speech, October 1, 1840
- The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
- Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895), preface to Kark Marx, The Civil War in France, 1891
- The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
- Henry Wallace (1888 - 1965), Speech in New York City, May 8, 1942
- Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), New England Reformers, 1844
- When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday -- no matter what happened Tuesday.
- Stephen Colbert, Speech to White House Correspondent's Dinner, April 30, 2006
- The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
- Eden Ahbez, "Nature Boy" (song, recorded by Nat King Cole)
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