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What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.

LORD MELBOURNE

It is most expedient for the preservation of the state that the rights of sovereignty should never be granted out to a subject, still less to a foreigner, for to do so is to provide a stepping-stone whereby the grantee becomes himself the sovereign.

JEAN BODIN, Six Books of the Commonwealth, 1576

Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.

GEORGE ORWELL

Oh, I’ll keep it to myself – until the water reaches my lower lip, and then I’m going to mention it to somebody!

Jack Lemmon as Professor Fate in

The Great Race, screenplay by Arthur Ross