#diction

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card. ↗

— Ron Paul

#absolutely #am #card #contradiction #free

But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules. ↗

— Richard Perle

#american people #beyond #cannot #establish #explicitly

I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#charges #going #how #i #i think

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#cross #death #hope #insofar #living

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#after #comes #dictionary #just #republican

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#concerned #dictionary #dregs #elitist #ideas

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#dictionary #i #old #put

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy. ↗