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Ants Quotes - Page 2

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.94, Beacon Press

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

"When Inequality Isn't" by John Mauldin, www.forbes.com. March 29, 2014.

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

Attributed to John von Neumann by Enrico Fermi in "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" by Freeman Dyson in "Nature", Issue 427 (p. 297), www.nature.com. January 22, 2004.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Attributed in "I Quote" by Virginia Ely, (p. 189), 1947.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

Speaking to the Roman Senate, as recorded by Sallust in The Catiline War (c. 40 b.c.). This quotation is a favorite of CIA counterintelligence officers.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison, Walter McIntosh Merrill, Louis Ruchames (1971). “The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: I will be heard, 1822-1835”, p.101, Harvard University Press

I've always wanted to be a giant space crab.

"Pinch Spaceships, Look Stupid: Living The Life Of A Giant Space Crab" by Ryan Rigney, www.wired.com. April 26, 2013.