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- We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.
- Golda Meir (1898 - 1978), to Anwar Saddat just before the peace talks.
- 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
- Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), A preface to "Paradise Lost"
- Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty
- 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
- Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
- Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895), Speech, April 1886
- Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Resolutions, 1803
- I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
- Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895)
- 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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