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Winston Churchill, First Address as Prime Minister, May 13, 1940

“What is our policy? I will say; ‘It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.’ You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: ‘Victory — victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.’”

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Marcus Tullius Cicero, who was assassinated on this day in 43 BC

“The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.”

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Daniel Webster, remarks in the U.S. House, Dec. 9, 1814

“Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or the wickedness of government may engage it? Forbid it, Almighty God!”

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Al Capone

“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”

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Prof. Kurt Huber, executed July 13, 1943, part of the White Rose resistance against the Nazis

“We do not want to fritter away our short lives in chains, even if they are golden chains of prosperity and power.”

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Alan Bock

“It has been my observation that going into government, especially in a high-​visibility job, lowers a person’s IQ by at least 50 points.”