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“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”
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“Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.”
Source : "Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.
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“Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.”
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“Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.”
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“To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.”
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“Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.”
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“He has a heart of gold - only harder.”
Source : "Fictional character: Oliver Niles". "A Star Is Born", www.imdb.com. 1937.
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“Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.”
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“A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.”
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“Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.”
Source : "Gold is again proving its value in a risky world" by George Trefgarne, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 23, 2002.