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• People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
• The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol. — Pamela Anderson
• All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. — Baron d'Holbach
• But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for… — Thomas Dunn English
• The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph… — Ludwig von Mises
• People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when… — John Kenneth Galbraith
• The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct… — Honore de Balzac
• Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. — George S. Patton
• Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument. — Arthur Guiterman
• A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land,… — Napoleon Bonaparte
• Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who… — Dave Barry

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