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Father says don’t kill your principles just because the government is paying for the funeral.

— James K. Morrow The Wine of Violence (1981)

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What good is it having God for a mother if she never sends you a birthday card?

Only Begotten Daughter (1990)

Someday that man will be astonished to discover there’s a whole world marching along outside his buzzing head.

The Wine of Violence (1981)

Every religion says war is evil, but one way or another they end up playing along.

The Wine of Violence (1981)

What enormous potential for intermittent happiness the world offered.

Only Begotten Daughter (1990)

Love does strange things to a man’s sense of proportion, which is why—contrary to rumor—it is by no means the Devil’s least favorite emotion.

Blameless in Abaddon (1996)

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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