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"There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power."	Angel Blessing
"There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly and there is a time to fight. And I'm going to fight like hell." (On Congressional moves toward impeachment)"	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."	James Russel Lowell
"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."	Thomas Alva Edison
"There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower."	Michael Lews
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."	E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings
"To be nobody-but-yourself--in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."	E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings
"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."	David Hume
"War will cease when men refuse to fight."	F. Hansen
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."	Paulo Freire
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war." (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)"	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle."	Erma Louise Bombeck
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight-it's the size of the fight in the dog."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world."	John B. Gough
"When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception."	Emile Coue
"When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion."	Albert Einstein
"When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph."	A. Alvarez
"When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you."	Irving Layton
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Dolly Payne Todd Madison	Dwight David Eisenhower	Edgar Watson Howe
Edward Gibbon	Elbert Hubbard	Emile Coue
Erich Fromm	Eric Lustbader	Erma Louise Bombeck
Ernesto "Che" Guevara	Ernest Miller Hemingway	Eugene V. Debs
Euripides	E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings	Frank Moore Colby
Franz Kafka	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	F. Hansen
George Burton Adams	George Foreman	George Herbert Walker Bush
Gerald R. Ford	Golda Meir	Gurdjieff
G Gaia	Hans Albrecht Bethe	Herbert Butterfield
Irving Layton	Isaac Asimov	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
James Corbett	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	James Joyce
James Russel Lowell	Joe Moore	John Locke
John B. Gough	John Fellows Akers	John K. Hutchens
John Paul Jones	Joseph Joubert	J. Deville
J. Martin Kohe	Kathleen Norris	Leonardo da Vinci
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca	Lord Melbourne	Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marilyn Ferguson
Martin Luther	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Max Lucado
Michael Lews	Michel Leiris	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Napolean Bonaparte	Omar Khayyám	Pan Ku
Paulo Freire	Paxton Blair	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Rita Mae Brown	Roger Nash Baldwin	Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Samuel Butler	Sam Ewing	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Tao Le Ching	Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Alva Edison	Thomas Mincher	T. Lehrer
Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh	William Jefferson Clinton	William Lloyd Garrison