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A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.


James MacGregor Burns

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ROBERT BURNS I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care fo...
ROBERT BURNS To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd.
ROBERT BURNS Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing.
FRANK BURNS I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
GEORGE BURNS Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
GEORGE BURNS Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining ...
KEN BURNS All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
ROBERT BURNS And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.
ROBERT BURNS O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.
ROBERT BURNS The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNS Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
ROBERT BURNS In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
ROBERT BURNS Then horn for horn they stretch and strive; Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.
ROBERT BURNS I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing: But, och! it hardens a' within, ...
ROBERT BURNS I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, am...
ROBERT BURNS Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poem The Cotter’s Saturday Ni...
ROBERT BURNS Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blu...
ROBERT BURNS What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature...
ROBERT BURNS G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I...
ROBERT BURNS Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The burstin...
ROBERT BURNS Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole ...
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