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Neil Kinnock


I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2


He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Miguel de Cervantes


The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.

Vince Lombardi


After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.

William Penn


Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848


Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

John Maynard Keynes


Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

Henry David Thoreau, "An Essay on Civil Disobedience," 1849.


Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

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Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:28:00 GMT
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