Frederick Douglass  - Quotes

 Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. 

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Reversal of Fortune  - Quotes

 Alan Dershowitz:
I'm not a hired gun. I've got to feel there's some moral or constitutional issue at stake.
Claus von Bülow:
But I'm absolutely innocent, and my civil liberties have been egregiously violated!
Alan Dershowitz:
I've got two black kids facing the electric chair for a crime they did not commit. THEY are innocent.
Claus von Bülow:
Well, before you assume I'm guilty, won't you hear my story?
Alan Dershowitz:
No. Never let defendants explain; puts most of them in an awkward position.
Claus von Bülow:
How do you mean?
Alan Dershowitz:
Lying.
 

Jesse Ventura  - Quotes

 If you're patriotic, stand up for the Bill of Rights because once they strip your rights from you, you will pay hell to get them back. You will and we're in the process of it right now. 

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P.G. Wodehouse  - Quotes

 When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope. 

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