Simon Heffer quotes
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“This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths.”
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“The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.”
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“Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.”
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“Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the highest casualty rate was among the horses. Compared with the Somme or an evening in the Blitz, the Valley of Death was a piece of cake.”
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“If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.”
-- Simon HefferSource : 1999 Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinventing of England.
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“The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.”
-- Simon HefferSource : 1999 Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinventing of England.
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“Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.”
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“In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands.”
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“Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.”
-- Simon Heffer
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“If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”
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Source : Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly
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Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, Da Capo Press
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