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#9631In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last
resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but
inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
#9632In fiction the recourse of the powerless is murder; in life the recourse
of the powerless is petty theft.
#9633In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because
I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I
didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the
Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came
for me -- and by that time no one was left to speak up.
-- Pastor Martin Niemoller
#9634In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror,
murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci
and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had
five hundred years of democracy and peace -- and what did they produce?
The cuckoo-clock.
-- Orson Welles, "The Third Man"
#9635In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence
is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
#9636In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of
assassination.
-- John Diefenbaker
#9637In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce
#9638In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used to frequently take
my advice.
-- Winston Churchill
#9639In war it is not men, but the man who counts.
-- Napoleon
#9640In war, truth is the first casualty.
-- U Thant
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