"The real future of America, the best future for ourselves and our children, is to go back in the direction of limited government restrained by the Constitution."

-- Robert P. George

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“In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles of it, to compare them with the principles of other governments, with a constant eye to our particular situation and circumstances, and thus endeavor to foresee the future operations of our own system, and its effects upon human happiness. Convinced of this truth, I have no apology to offer for the following remarks, but an earnest desire to be useful to my country.”
“Truth may have been found but might never be known.”
“In college, I had a lot of friends who were writers and wanted to be writers and I felt intimidated by it. I just didn't know if I had any gift or voice and I had no confidence about it.”
“It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of the material Universe, that other myths are true in terms of their cultural meaning, and that there's absolutely no problem with holding more than one story, just as there's no problem with viewing the sunset in terms of planetary rotation and spectra and nuclear fusions one moment and as visual splendor the next.”

Source : "Board Forum: How Grand a Narrative?". 1999.
“Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”
“I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.”
“Glenn Hoddle was probably the unfunniest man I have ever known”
“With biobanking there's just another tool available to make sure that the land we actually conserve has better biodiversity values. It's usually more contiguous. You see, just because you preserve two dozen trees at the end of a development site doesn't mean that's a great habitat.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au

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