"It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable."

-- Hubert Van Zeller

#Religious Quotes #People Quotes #Devil Quotes

“After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.”

Source : "The Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest". Book by John Allan Wyeth, July 1, 1996.
“One man's bane is another's bliss.”
“I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.”
“I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There's a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There's a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home.”
“If we take an examination of what is understood by happiness ... we shall find all its properties ... under this short definition, that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.”
“Am I a vampire?" Massie asked. "Huh?" Alicia asked. "Then why are you keeping me in the dark?”
“I hold that two principles are important; first that there should be a steady expansion of public services, not an irregular one related to revenue accruing in any particular year; the second that taxes should be constant over long periods (provided, that is, that they are neither burdensome nor inequitable).”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 531), March 24, 1971.
“I've never needed a lobbyist personally to put my case. I'd rather put my case myself. But I don't understand how other people look at things. A lot of people in business haven't been involved in politics. They are frightened of ministers and the whole procedure. It's not something to be frightened of. It's something to go in and realise that people who go into politics, regardless of being Labor, Liberal or Nationals, primarily go in to serve the community.”

Source : "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, August 07, 2009.

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