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Interesting Quotes - Page 44

We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.

Speech to joint session of Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, 30 Dec. 194

The king hath note of all that they intend, by interception which they dream not of.

King Henry the Fifth (1600), Act II, scene 2. These words are engraved on a plaque at Bletchley Park, the manor house near London that housed British signals intelligence and codebreaking during World War II.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.53, Lulu.com

The only interesting ideas are heresies

Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.440, Macmillan