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1 " Don’t argue with an idiot, he’ll only beat you with experience. "
― Steve Berry , The 14th Colony (Cotton Malone, #11)
2 " you don’t need a parachute to skydive. You need a parachute to skydive twice. "
3 " Truth is rarely pure and never simple. "
4 " A quote from the American Thomas Jefferson. “A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. "
5 " Democracy thrived on a clash of ideas, a tolerance of viewpoints, and robust debate. "
6 " How could anyone believe that a political system could provide all of the goods and services a people needed without cost? A daily gratification that would eliminate greed, selfishness, miserliness, and infidelity. A place where man could become noble, strong, and courageous. Crime, violence, and social ills would vanish. It’s absurd. The experiment called the Soviet Union only proved that none of that is possible. "
7 " To think that America could exist independent of what was happening around the globe, no matter how far away or how remote things might appear, bordered on idiocy. "
8 " Tell me, Bruce, what’s it like to be second? Never the captain. Always the lieutenant. "
9 " The tree is rotten, all it needs is a good shake and the bad apples will fall. Communism is evil. It prevents people from being free. "
10 " Yet ignorance seemed the greatness weakness of conformity. A select few made all the decisions, and everyone else followed, regardless that those decisions could be wrong. "
11 " white, vaporous "
12 " A quote from the American Thomas Jefferson. “A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.” She never forgot that. Her "
13 " Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad. "
14 " Americans believed in openness. Democracy thrived on a clash of ideas, a tolerance of viewpoints, and robust debate. "
15 " A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. "
