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- A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
- The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
- Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
- "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), a conference in Washington DC
- When you kill one enemy, you then must plan for the one hundred enemies you have now created. No enemy ever stands alone. He comes with a mother and father, brothers and sisters. He has a wife and children, friends and neighbors. When you kill this enemy, you must be ready to face the angry revenge that comes from the grief of this loss for all the people who knew and loved this man. The only way to stop this endless chain of enemy killing enemy is to forgive it. And in doing so, teach each one that life is the most important, precious and valuable thing.
- Anwarshah Anwary, Freedom-A Journey Through Afghanistan-The Anwarshah Anwary Story
- I am from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.
- William Duncan Vandiver, US Congressman, speech at 1899 naval banquet
- He who abandons the field is beaten.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
- Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
- Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Eudemos
- in the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.
- Pierre Corrielle, la Mort de Pompee
- In the sweetness of friendship; let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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