"The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us". - Thomas Jefferson, March 28, 1811
"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves". - Ronald Reagan, Oct. 27, 1964
"Don't be silly, Mr. Gorbachev. You can't even feed your own people". - Margaret Thatcher to Mikhail Gorbachev during their first meeting, as he "attempted to argue the superiority of communism" - 1985
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