"I've never been in parliament as a National, I gave up smoking about the same time [and] I've rid myself of two cancers."

-- Tony Windsor

#Cancer Quotes #Two Quotes #Smoking Quotes

“Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?”
“Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong.”
“Since when do we let the government decide what is or isnt good for us? What the hell does Congress know about nutrition, anyway?....If the government can use force whenever something is "in our best interest" then government should force everyone to wake up at 6am every morning for calisthenics in the front yard. Fast food establishments should be torn down and replaced with bars that serve carrot juice and alfalfa sprouts, since - "its in your best interest." This paternalistic attitude that "the government knows best" and that you are merely a helpless child is insulting and reprehensible.”

Source : "Good to Be King". Book by Michael Badnarik, 2004.
“Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.”

Source : Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”
“Physically, my character is stronger than him which is totally unrealistic, ... Because in reality he can ... kill me. I think it has a lot to do with (him being) the youngest of all of his brothers, and I think he got beat up a lot.”
“Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry and children's portion, and as the means of procuring the necessaries and alleviating the afflictions of life, and making old age a scene of rest, has something in it sacred that is not to be sported with, or trusted to the airy bubble of paper currency.”
“Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.”

Source : John James Ingalls (1902). “A Collection of the Writings of John James Ingalls: Essays, Addresses, and Orations”
“Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.”

Source : "Sue Townsend: 'I hate it when people call me a national treasure'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

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