"It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country-and especially the rights of trade unionists-if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country."

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Source : Michael Foot's speech to the Union of Post Office Workers in Bournemouth, May 15, 1977.

Michael Foot

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“You cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.”
“Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.”
“The battle for our lives, and the lives and souls of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, our neighbors, and our nation is waged on our knees. When we don't pray, it's like sitting on the sidelines watching those we love and care about scrambling through a war zone, getting shot at from every angle. When we do pray, however, we're in the battle alongside them, approaching God's power on their behalf. If we also declare the Wordog God in our prayers, then we wield a powerful weapon against which no enemy can prevail.”
“Hatori: "You won't get very far if you try to threaten me in THAT outfit." Yuki: "Thank you. So much.”
“Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.”
“I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.”

Source : "How to Become a Star In 1 Easy Lesson: 'War Horse's' Jeremy Irvine (Q&A)". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 29, 2011.
“Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think.”
“If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.”

Source : Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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