"But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption, as so many hon. Members do, that we get security by an increase of air armaments or an increase of any other form of armaments."

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Source : Stafford Cripps's Speech in the House of Commons opposing the National Government's decision to expand the Royal Air Force, api.parliament.uk. July 30, 1934.

Stafford Cripps

#Air Quotes #Assumption Quotes #Form Quotes

“Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.”
“Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.”
“A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.”

Source : "Number 1274: Guy Fawkes Day Works Too". Webcomic by Jeph Jacques, www.questionablecontent.net.
“I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.”
“There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.”
“If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.”
“...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.”

Source : Pearl Cleage (2010). “Till You Hear from Me: A Novel”, p.161, One World/Ballantine
“At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen my father died; my response to his death was atheistic.”

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