"Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty."

-- Andrew Jackson

#Heart Quotes #Hands Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace which would be heaped upon me. But what matter? I had no children to dishonor; all save one who had ever loved me were dead, and she no longer needed me, and if the Lord wanted some one to throw into that gulf, no one could be better spared than I.”
“We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism”
“If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.”

Source : "Tom Hardy Interview For ‘Warrior’". budomate.com. 2011.
“Don't ask me if life is worth living, live it yourself and find out.”
“You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.”

Source : "A study in emotion" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.
“The body of Our Saviour shat but Our Saviour shat not.”
“Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home.”
“It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.”

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