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Them There Be Fightin' Words "Love, friendship, respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something." -- Anton Chekhov "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -- Winston Churchill "The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art ..We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face." - John Foster Dulles "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin "To speak his thoughts is every free man's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight." - Homer "Often a whole city is paid punishment for one bad man." - Hesiod, Greek poet "You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong." - Abraham Lincoln "Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be bread, water and salt for all. Let freedom reign. The sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement." -- Nelson Mandela "Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories." -- Polybius "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "O! It is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant." -- William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." -- Jonathan Swift "Invincibility is in oneself; vulnerability is in the opponent." - Sun Tzu, 'The Art of War' "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." - Oscar Wilde, Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet |