“the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.”

― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

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“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“What do I care how he looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave! And I shall do zat!”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them; and in the actions of all men, and especially of princes,...”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four

“A lord may love the men that he commands, he could hear his lord father saying, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgment on them, or send them forth to die.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are abloom with flowers.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms.”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“Whether for this, or for some better reason, the founders of the schools of the Middle Ages included astronomy, along with geometry, arithmetic, and music, as one of the four branches of advanced education; and, in this respect, it is only just...”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. Dragons may not have much real use for all their wealth, but they know it to an ounce as a rule, especially after long possession; and Smaug was no exception.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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