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“We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.”

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"As my former colleague Milton Friedman used to say, ‘Government spending is taxation, pure and simple.’ Governments, when they spend the money, not only add to demand, they also reduce demand by takin…"

— Arthur Laffer

Economics1940

#politics

"Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to toler…"

— Abraham Lincoln

Politics1744–1786

#freedom

"I hope that we some day will have a big budget and a lot of time in which to do our work. It is my dream to have an American staff and a Japanese staff work together to create a Godzilla film."

— Kenpachiro Satsuma

Entertainment1947–2023

#hope

"A few musical notes can morph into countless new songs, and a small set of vocabulary can create a congeries of poems. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations."

— Newton Lee

Literature

#music