"A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism."

-- James Q. Wilson

#Power Quotes #Government Quotes #Defense Quotes

“Give the FBI unchecked domestic spying powers and instead of focusing on preventing terrorism, it will revert to doing what it does best - monitoring, harassing, and intimidating political dissidents and thousands of harmless immigrants.”

Source : "Ashcroft's Lies". prospect.org. June 27, 2002.
“The evolution was always to greater scale and speed. Other countries did that here and there - GB in textiles, Germany in steel - but we went in that direction almost across the board.”

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.
“People who watch Transporter are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.”
“If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!”
“But first be a person who needs people. People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.”
“I still have the passion to play.”
“You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.”
“God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.”

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