#fr

Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud. ↗

— Roger Q. Mills

#fraud #introduced #nursed #prohibition

I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#congress #could #credentials #down #events

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends. ↗

— Addison Mizner

#choose #friends #gives #god #our

Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and for war as well?...It would have been so much nicer just to sail about, with here and there a port and a bit of land to stretch one's legs on, buy a few books and get a change of cooking for a while. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#change

Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most. ↗

— Joe Moore

#best #borrowing #decide #friend #money

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices. ↗

— Michael Moore

#fewer #free #free society #good #limit

When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me. ↗

— Samantha Mumba

#friends #get #group #hide #i

African leaders should not turn the continent into a giant collector of donations and loans from wealthy nations—they must find other plausible means to help established their economic security so as to minimize poverty. This incoherent blunder on the mainland must be scrutinized. ↗

— Duop Chak Wuol

#economics-philosophy #grant #leadership #loans #leadership

Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg. ↗

— Sly Stone

#even #extra #friend #i #last

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me. ↗

— George Murray

#been #considered #doing #entertained #even