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“Babylon is burning” – The Ruts

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“Football: Field sport played by two teams with a round, inflated ball. The people’s game, invented by the English and exported the world over. Never knowingly called ’soccer’, a word used by many Americans to describe twenty-two foreigners in funny shorts.” – Anon

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“During the war in Vietnam, the President [Bush] was a combat pilot assigned to protect Houston from Viet Cong attack.” – Greg Palast

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“If there was a moral high ground, Guantánamo has lost it.” – Dame Stella Rimmington

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“The rightwing press, owned by the great-grandson of a Nazi sympathiser, a pair of tax exiles and an Australian with American citizenship, is fiercely nationalistic when defending our institutions from Europe, but seeks to surrender the lot of us to the US.” – George Monbiot

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“The English are not usually given to patriotic boasting – indeed, both patriotism and boasting are regarded as unseemly, so the combination is doubly distasteful. But there is one significant exception to this rule, and that is the patriotic pride we take in our sense of humour, particularly our expert use of irony.” – Kate Fox

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“O, it is excellent to have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.” – William Shakespeare

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“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans…unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.” – Karl Rove

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“Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics, understand neither.” – MK Ghandi

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“Tell the House of Lords to go to hell.” – Dennis Skinner MP

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“If, ten years ago, I had gone on the radio and said that within a decade a Labour government would try to do away with jury trial, remove Habeas Corpus, eliminate the presumption of innocence, introduce punishment without trial, and put house arrest on the statute book, they would have locked me up.” – David Davis MP

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“Who cares about a little terrorist in Afghanistan?” – Paul Wolfowitz, April 30th 2001

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“Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.” – GW Bush

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“He says that he became president because God wanted him in office. I mean, it’s enough to turn you into an atheist.” – Tony Benn

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“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” – Winston Churchill