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- Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), A Man without a Country
- I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), A Man without a Country
- Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), A Man without a Country
- Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- The undiscover'd country from whose bourn no traveller returns, puzzles the will, and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of?
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act III, sc. 1
- We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), The Crisis, no. 4, September 11, 1777
- 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
- Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), A Mencken Chrestomathy
- In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Address, Columbus, Ohio, September 4, 1919
- Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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