"We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come."

-- George McGovern

#Country Quotes #Son Quotes #Years Quotes

“When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.”
“The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has become a growth industry. This may be the best argument, in the end, for unfettered freedom of expression.”
“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.”
“No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.79
“The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.”

Source : "Mr. Justice Holmes, 44 Harv. L. Rec. 682, 289". 1931.
“Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers. Right. Because even that smacks of rebellion.”
“Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.”
“She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service. Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.”

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