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- This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891), My Study Windows,1899
- The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays, 1961
- Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Annual message to Congress, December 1, 1862
- What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.
- Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), People Magazine, 09-19-11
- Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.
- Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), People Magazine, 09-19-11
- I know death is coming, and I do not fear it. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.
- Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), People Magazine, 09-19-11
- We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
- Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984), Remark in election meeting in Nagpur, India 1967
- True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels themthe desire to do rightis precisely the same.
- Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870), Letter to General P. G. T. Beauregard, October 3, 1865
- Yes, God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.
- Ely Culbertson, Must We Fight Russia, chapter 5, 1946
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