"This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you."

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Source : "The Simpsons: Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1990.

Charles Montgomery

#Jail Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.”
“Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not for our senses... Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things... Imagination too shows what is ... Hence she is or should be especially cultivated by the truly Scientific, those who wish to enter into the worlds around us!”
“My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable.”
“Everyone has an inner hero that they have glimpsed from time to time, just waiting to break free Now is the time to tap into your true hero potential,”
“Some folk want their luck buttered.”

Source : Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Mayor of Casterbridge”, p.107, Thomas Hardy
“And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.”

Source : Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.51, Arcade Publishing
“I need to see where I am physically and practicing with NHL players is the best way to find that out.”
“The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts -at any rate not the reverse.”

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