"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.”
“Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.”
“It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.”
“I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.”
“Consider this: 1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD? And here's a bonus question: 2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle?”
“O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.”
“I must have ended up on the wrong planet. Everything here is so strange.”
“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”

Source : Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Revolt in 2100”, p.53, Hachette UK

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