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I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone… — Edward Abbey
The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for… — Edward Abbey
There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with… — Edward Abbey
Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no… — Edward Abbey
One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women… — Henry Adams
Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials. — Mercy Otis Warren
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to… — Samuel Adams
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are… — Thomas Jefferson
The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and… — Thomas Jefferson
But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire… — Thomas Jefferson
We had quitters during the Revolution too...we called them 'Kentuckians.' — George Washington
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to… — Thomas Paine
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales… — Thomas Paine
Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called… — Thomas Paine
The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved… — Thomas Paine
We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be… — Thomas Paine
Come Friday, the world will see what the Protestant people really think of this so-called peace process, which is really a surrender process. — Ian Paisley
My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative… — John Hume
There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was… — John Hume

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