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One of the groups of visiting schoolchildren gathers beneath the Lancaster a few yards from where we are sitting. These five-and six-year-olds in their neat grey pullovers and pink ties are not as tall as the wheel of the undercarriage. ...more
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Lyndon B. Johnson
“Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!”
Lyndon Baines Johnson

Ian Kershaw
“I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti-Nazi engaged in the underground resistance fight. However, I know really that I would have been as confused and felt as helpless as most of the people I am writing about”
Ian Kershaw, Popular Opinion & Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933-45

“So we had to take up the challenge or for ever lose the right to be decent, self-respecting inhabitants of a free world. It became necessary for us to forget the rules temporarily so that in the future rules could occupy a permanent, honoured place in a better way of life.”
John Nichol, Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War 1944-45

Bill Hicks
“I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.”
Bill Hicks

Bill Hicks
“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok … But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”
Bill Hicks

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