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"You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames."
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"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."
"Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there."
"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice."
"Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold."
"We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves."
"What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists."
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"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."
"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."
"There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals."
"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."
"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."
"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."
"We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways."
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