"I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals."

-- Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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“Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.”
“And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.”
“I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.”
“And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.”
“I consider myself really lucky and I always have done. My approach is that if I know I'm relaxed and happy, then I will do my best work.”
“It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.”
“Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
“Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.”

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