"There was no one left to speak for me"

--

Martin Niemoller

“Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.”
“Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.”
“The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.”
“What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.”
“The greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.”

Source : "Rep. Lamar Smith: ‘The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.’". thinkprogress.org. June 4, 2009.
“My big places to shop are Wal-Mart and Target - seriously. That is where half of my stuff comes from now.”
“My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.”
“Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.”

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