"In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent."

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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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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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"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."

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"You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference."

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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?"

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

"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."

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

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