"Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society."

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Source : "Michael Ignatieff: from The Late Show to Prime Minister in waiting?". Interview With Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2009.

Michael Ignatieff

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“How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise”
“Artists are here to disturb the peace.”
“Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.”

Source : William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.19, tredition
“I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.”
“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”
“Young people have, truly, the potential to change the world. Not when they get older - today.”
“When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions”
“Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.”

Source : Michael Tolkin (1995). “The Player ; The Rapture ; The New Age: Three Screenplays”, p.42, Grove Press

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