"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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Re: Pakistani troops involved in skirmish with US troops
Originally Posted by drone
As much as I like Abe, that quote uses a poor analogy. The end result for the sheep is the same, the shepherd isn't minding the flock out of the kindness of his heart.
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