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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

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"No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want."

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"Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?"

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

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"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

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"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

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"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door."

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"Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state."

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"Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents."

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"Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door."

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"In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view."

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"Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process."

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"Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland."

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"If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere."

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"Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require."

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