"Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece."

-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Uniforms Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“â€ŽOur ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here, and they built here and they're buried here. This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!”
“Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.”
“I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se.”

Source : IGN Interview, www.ign.com. July 14, 2001.
“And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy.”
“If they come back it's a night we'll remember for a long time. But that's a capital if.”
“I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good nor bad. It seemed to me, in the end, the same as being bad.”
“The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them.”
“Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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