“ So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hand… Christopher Hitchens
“ The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps. Johann Hari
“ Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and t… Abraham Lincoln
“ I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state. Johann Hari
“ A dock worker from East Ham also spoke of freedom. You'll never find the English going Communist he said. We don't like it. It's not true Communism, it dictatorial. We want to say what we think. I'm a… Martha Gellhorn
“ I am, at the Fed level, libertarian;at the state level, Republican;at the local level, Democrat;and at the family and friends level, a socialist.If that saying doesn’t convince you of the fatuousness… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The substance of what I have to say to the disadvantage of the theory and practice of universal suffrage is that it tends to invert what I should have regarded as the true and natural relation between… James Fitzjames Stephen
“ In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had… Gordon S. Wood
“ In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing. Montesquieu
