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- Bad spellers of the world, untie!
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- I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859), 1850
- Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
- Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
- Dictatorship is without a doubt the most satisfying form of government...as long as I'm the dictator.
- Phil Stromer 11/9/90-
- ...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826), (Diary, 1786)
- Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
- Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
- The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), in his "The Rights of Man" (1791)
- Do we really deserve top billing?
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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