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- There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), "Moby Dick"
- 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"
- No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), The Weight of Glory
- "Do what thou wilt" shall be the whole of the law.
- Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)
- 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
- The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
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