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The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains. ↗

— Dudley North

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Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare. ↗

— Dudley North

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I'm a rather decisive type. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful. ↗

— Edmund H. North

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I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk. ↗

— Edmund H. North

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Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades. ↗

— Gary North

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Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily. ↗

— Gary North

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Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force. ↗

— Lord North

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Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular. ↗

— Lord North

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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly. ↗

— Oliver North

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