"It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism."

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Source : John Amery (2007). “John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe”

John Amery

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“Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in Washington or London than in rural Africa) whereas precisely the opposite is the case for mental illness (developing nations with limited psychiatric resources have better outcomes and lower suicide rates).”
“I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.”
“A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.”
“I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one, the indifference with which she passes from the salon to the housetop. When we caress her, she stretches herself and arches her back responsively; but this is because she feels an agreeable sensation, not because she takes a silly satisfaction, like the dog, in faithfully loving a thankless master. The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.”
“Whether it's overeating or it's overworking or over-sex or whatever it is, alcoholism, drug addition, we push ourselves to the brink and then pull back because it's kind of exciting.”
“I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.”

Source : Interview with John Sears, RTNDA Communicator (RTNDA - Radio Television Digital News Association), Volume 54, August 2000.
“When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!”
“Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.”

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