"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."

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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."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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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."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

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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."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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

Muhammad Ali, American Athlete

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

Christopher Lasch, American Historian

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

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"Dare to be honest and fear no labor."

Fear

"His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar."

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"Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame."

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"I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."

Existence

"Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings."

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"Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!"

Man

"The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend."

Friendship

"Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!"

Family

"Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve."

Character

"And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation."

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