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🇺🇸Thomas Jefferson

Politics

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature

Age of Enlightenment

1749–1832

"Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment."

"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well."

"From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you."

"I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it’s there. It’s mapped out for me."

"The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all speak, act, and serve together!"

"Politics means a strong slow drilling of hard boards, with passion and judgment at the same time."

"A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman."

"When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s."

"I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up."

"Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price."

"The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom."

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🇺🇸Robert G. Ingersoll

Law

agnosticism

1833–1899

"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain."

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🇨🇭Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Law

b. 1947

"We don’t want a dystopian future in which corporations and not democratically elected governments call the shots. We don’t want an international order akin to post-democracy or post-law."

"The higher the knowledge and skills of our workforce, the higher their earning power. Whether they decide to remain here or go abroad, the economy will benefit because of their remittances."

"Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up."

"The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape."

"The silent annexation is ongoing. The Democratic Progressive Party’s loss of power might be tolerable, but the loss of sovereignty in our time would be an irreversible mistake that would jeopardize future generations."

"All sorts of excuses were being given why we should uphold rearmament, including the old-fashioned "For God, King and Country" patriotism, assisted by all the tomfoolery of jubilees and coronations."

"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."

"If Gore had been elected president, right now he would just be finding that last lesbian quadriplegic for the Special Forces team."

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🇵🇰Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Politics

1876–1948

"I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name."

"The revolution cannot seek to stifle art or culture since one of the goals and fundamental aims of the revolution is to develop art and culture, precisely so that art and culture truly become the patrimony of the people."

"The federal minimum wage hasn't gone up in nine years, and in that time the real value has dropped more than a dollar. That's why I support a $15/hr minimum wage."

"If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up."

"I suppose being right will have to compensate me for being poor—the story of my life, I fear."

"You can't appeal to us through our wombs, we're pro-life. The fetus beat us. We grew up with sonograms. We know life when we see it."

"After all, in our region there's been a wound for years on the body of the Muslim world under the shadow of the occupation of the holy land of Palestine and the beloved al-Quds ."

"You really don't think about it as you go through it; you just try to do the right thing at the right time."

"I am running because I think the world is falling apart."

"That doesn’t mean there’s not still a lot of pain and there won’t be pain for a while, but that basically was, we’ve now put out rules to get back to work. Trump’s now back in charge. It’s not the doctors."

"Country is not a mere zone of territory. The true country is the Idea to which it gives birth; it is the Thought of love, the sense of communion which unites in one all the sons of that territory."

"The most important job we have is not congressman or senator or governor. It's family and mother and husband and wife."

"And it would be a short war my friend. The government has nukes. Too many of them. But they’re legit. I’m sure if we talked we could find common ground to protect our families and communities."

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🇺🇸Ketanji Brown Jackson

Law

b. 1970

"Robert Mueller Testimony before House Intelligence Committee"

"I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he'd been through, never worried about it.... I thought it would be me."

"The most intimidating part for me has to do with the whole legacy, and knowing it is a legacy in line with the Christian tradition. I think about Abraham and his son Isaac, and it's kind of frightening."

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🇺🇸Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Politics

anti-vax movement

b. 1954

"Thimerosal is a controversial mercury based vaccine preservative that research scientists and vaccine safety advocates have connected to the epidemic of brain disorders in children."

"John McCain, if you liked the last eight, you are going to love the next four."

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