“Like any other big government department, it looks good on paper but is an utter shambles. Petty infighting & political agendas, arrogance & sheer bloody-mindedness almost guarantees that the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing”
— Jasper Fforde
— Jasper Fforde
“You will never know true hatred until someone destroys your family”
-Ben Hall, Australian Bush Ranger
1864
-Ben Hall, Australian Bush Ranger
1864
“During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave.”
-Herodotus
-Herodotus
“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.”
– Samuel Adams
– Samuel Adams
“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.”
– Alexandre Dumas
– Alexandre Dumas
“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee
― Harper Lee
“-you may—have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
-Winston S. Churchill
-Winston S. Churchill
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