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...it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,

…it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds… – Samuel Adams

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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can. – Samuel Adams

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It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. – Samuel Adams

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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it. – Art Buchwald

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Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder. – Eric Hoffer

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. – Eric Hoffer

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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. – Edward R. Murrow

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics. – Kingsley Amis

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Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real. – Author Unknown

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Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile. – Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1893

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I really liked Starter For Ten because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like St. Elmos Fire and The Breakfast Club and Ive always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film. – James McAvoy

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