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"The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."

"Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge."

"Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics."

"All professions are a conspiracy against the country."

"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

"Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad."

"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."
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"The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture."

"Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?"

"We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence."

"We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ."

"Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed."

"The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct."
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