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Black Hawk Down (film)

Black Hawk Down is a 2001 film about the U.S. military operation against warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid in Mogadishu, Somalia that began as a quick raid and escalated into a one-day battle in October, 1993.
 * Directed by Ridley Scott. Written by Ken Nolan, based on the book Black Hawk Down: A Story Of Modern War by Mark Bowden.

"Leave no man behind." Tagline

Sergeant Matt Eversmann

 * Look, these people... they have no jobs, no food, no education, no future. I just figure that you know, I mean, we have two things we can do. We can help, or we can sit back and watch a country destroy itself on CNN. Right?

Sergeant First Class Norm "Hoot" Gibson

 * Y'know what I think? Don't really matter what I think. Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window.
 * When I go home, people ask me, "Hey Hoot, why do you do it, man? Why? You some kind of war junkie?" I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand it's about the men next to you... and that's it. That's all it is.

Dialogue

 * Osman Ali Atto: I see not catching Aidid is becoming routine.
 * General William Garrison: We're not leaving Somalia until we find him. And we will find him.
 * Atto: (scoffing) You've been here, what, six weeks. Six weeks, you tried to catch the General. You put up reward posters. $25,000. What's this, gunfight at K.O. Corral?
 * Garrison: It's O.K. Corral.
 * Atto: Don't make the mistake of thinking because I grew up without running water I am simple, General. I do know something about history. See all this? It's simply shaping tomorrow. A tomorrow without a lot of Arkansas white-boys' ideas in it.
 * Garrison: Well, I wouldn't know about that. I'm from Texas.
 * Atto: Mr. Garrison, I think you should not have come here. This is civil war. This is our war, not yours.
 * Garrison: Three hundred thousand dead and counting. That's not a war, Mr. Atto. That's genocide.

 * [Troops are having an impromptu barbecue with a wild boar killed by Hoot.]
 * Captain Steele: Sergeant, what's going on here?
 * Hoot: Oh, just some aerial target practice, sir. Didn't want to leave it behind.
 * Steele: I'm talking about your weapon. [points to Hoot's slung M4] Delta or no Delta, that's a hot weapon. You know better than that. Your safety should be on at all times on base.
 * Hoot: [holding up his index finger] Well, this is my safety, sir. [bends finger and walks away]
 * Sanderson: Let it go, sir. The guy hasn't eaten in a couple of days.
 * Steele: [visibly annoyed] You Delta boys are a bunch of undisciplined cowboys. Let me tell you something, Sergeant. We get on the five-yard line, you're going to need my Rangers. So you all better learn to be team players. We're done here.
 * Sanderson: [stares at him] Enjoy your meal, Captain. [walks away]

 * [The Rangers make last-minute preparations for the mission; Grimes is filling a canteen.]
 * Nelson: You're not gonna need that, dude. We're not out there long enough. [Grimes sets aside the canteen and starts to pack his NOD night vision goggles.]
 * Twombly: You're not gonna need that, either. Might as well take dope and beer instead.
 * Grimes: What?
 * Twombly: Ammo, dude. Take ammo.

 * Nelson: The Humvees ain't coming back, dude.
 * Twombly: What? Were we supposed to go to them?
 * Nelson: I thought they were supposed to come to us.
 * Twombly: I think we're supposed to go to them.
 * Nelson: Shit.
 * Twombly: Okay, let's go to the crash site.
 * Nelson: Okay. Just don't fire that thing so close to my head. I can barely hear as it is.
 * Twombly: [sees a group of Somali militiamen closing in on them.] Shit! Get down! [fires a long burst inches above Nelson's head.]
 * Nelson: What did I just tell you? I swear to God if you do that again - [Twombly fires on another group of armed Somalis] AAAAHHH!
 * Twombly: You okay? Nelson, you all right?
 * Nelson: WHAT?

 * [Goffena is over the second crash site; ground support keeps getting delayed.]
 * CWO Goffena: There's a large crowd advancing six, seven blocks from the crash. Shughart and Gordon again request permission to secure until convoy arrives. Over.
 * Col. Harrell: General, the crowd's in the hundreds now. From where they are they can see things clearer than any of us. They know what they're asking.
 * Gen. Garrison: Let me talk to them. This is Garrison. I want to make sure y'all know what you're asking for, so say it out loud and clear.
 * MSG. Gary Gordon: We're asking to go in and set up a perimeter until ground support arrives.
 * Garrison: And you realize I cannot tell you when that will be? It could take quite a while.
 * SFC. Randy Shughart: Roger that.
 * Garrison: You still want to go in there?
 * Gordon: Yes, sir.
 * Garrison: Colonel Harrell, it's your call.
 * Harrell: Roger that. Goffena, put them in.

 * SFC. Shughart: [on radio] C-2, we're at the Six-Four crash site. Securing a perimeter. [to Durant] You all right?
 * CWO Durant: Yeah, I'm good.
 * Shughart: [handing him a weapon] You're locked and loaded. Any Skinnies come around these corners, you watch our backs. [He turns and starts outside]
 * Durant: Hey - where's the rescue squad?
 * Shughart: We're it. [exits]

 * [CWO Durant has been taken prisoner.]
 * Somali Militiaman: You are the Ranger who kills my people?
 * CWO Durant: I'm not a Ranger. I'm a pilot. [Durant declines a cigarette]
 * Militiaman: That's right. None of you Americans smoke anymore. You live long, dull, uninteresting lives.
 * Durant: What do you want with me?
 * Militiaman: You have taken hostages. We... have you.
 * Durant: My government will never negotiate for me.
 * Militiaman: Then perhaps you and I can negotiate, huh? Soldier to soldier.
 * Durant: I'm not in charge.
 * Militiaman: Course not. You have the power to kill, but not negotiate. In Somalia, killing is negotiation. Do you really think if you get General Aidid, we will simply put down our weapons and adopt American democracy? That the killing will stop? We know this: without victory, there can be no peace. There will always be killing, you see? This is how things are, in our world.

 * [Hoot removes magazine from the dead Cpl. Smith's rifle.]
 * Sgt. Eversmann: What are you doing?
 * Hoot: We need the ammo. You did all you could here.
 * Eversmann: They should've sent a medevac.
 * Hoot: Well, right now we'd be out there defending another crashed chopper, and more men would get torn up.
 * Eversmann: Maybe.
 * Hoot: See, you're thinking. Don't. Because, Sergeant, you can't control who gets hit or who doesn't. Who falls out of a chopper, or why. It ain't up to you. It's just war.
 * Eversmann: Yeah, well, Smith's still dead. If Blackburn hadn't fallen, none of this would've happened.
 * Hoot: Would have, could have, should have - it don't matter. You'll have plenty of time to think about that later. Believe me.

 * [Sgt. Eversmann finds Hoot gearing up for a mission.]
 * Eversmann: [in disbelief] You're going back in?
 * Hoot: There are still men out there.

Taglines

 * Leave No Man Behind

Cast

 * Josh Hartnett - Sergeant Matt Eversmann, Rangers
 * Ewan McGregor - Specialist Grimes, Rangers
 * Eric Bana - Sergeant Norm "Hoot" Gibson, Delta Force
 * William Fichtner - Sergeant Sanderson, Delta Force
 * Tom Sizemore - Lieutenant Colonel Danny McKnight, Rangers
 * Jason Isaacs - Captain Mike Steele, Rangers
 * Sam Shepard - General William Garrison
 * Ron Eldard - Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant, 160th SOAR
 * Jeremy Piven - Chief Warrant Officer Cliff "Elvis" Wolcott, 160th SOAR
 * Johnny Strong - SFC Randy Shughart
 * Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - MSG Gary Gordon

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From Russia with Love (film)

From Russia with Love (1963) is the second of the "James Bond (film series)," based upon the character created in novels by Ian Fleming.
 * Directed by Terence Young; screenplay by Richard Maibaum.

James Bond

 * Red wine with fish... Well, that should have told me something.
 * You won't be needing this, Old man!

Others

 * Donald Grant: The first one won't kill you, nor the second, not even the third — not until you crawl over here and you kiss my foot!
 * Number One/Ernst Stavro Blofeld: Siamese fighting fish. Fascinating creatures. Brave, but of the whole stupid. Yes, they're stupid. Except for the occasional one such as we have here who lets the other two fight. While he waits -- waits until the survivor is so exhausted that he cannot defend himself. And then like SPECTRE, he strikes.

Dialogue

 * [Bond and Kerim Bay are spying on the Soviet Embassy to Turkey through a periscope]
 * Kerim Bay: A gift from your navy. It is a pity we cannot hear too. How are things in there?
 * [Tatiana Romanova enters room, the periscope shows she is leggy]
 * James Bond: Well, from this angle... things are shaping up nicely.

 * James Bond: You're one of the most beautiful girls I've ever seen.
 * Tatiana Romanova: Thank you, but, I think my mouth is too big.
 * James Bond: No, it’s the right size... for me, that is.

 * [Moneypenny, M and other officials are listening to Bond's taped interview of Tatiana Romanov.]
 * Tatiana Romanova: The mechanism is... Oh, James, James... Will you make love to me all the time in England?
 * James Bond: Day and night. Go on about the mechanism.

 * James Bond: Your clock: is it correct?
 * Russian Consulate clerk: Always.
 * James Bond: Of course.
 * [Bond briefly walks away to check his watch.]
 * [Kerim Bey, underneath the building, checks his watch and prepares to set off the tear-gas bomb.]
 * [Bond comes back to the clerk's desk]
 * James Bond: Excuse me, you did say your clock was correct?
 * Russian Consulate clerk: Russian clocks are always ...
 * [The tear-gas bomb goes off. People in the building start to evacuate. Bond puts on his gas mask and proceeds to the communications room where Tatiana Romanova is working with the Lektor, disabling a guard in the process.]
 * James Bond: Is this the Lektor?
 * Tatiana Romanova: [coughing] Yes.
 * James Bond: [giving his gas mask to Romanova] Here take this. It's only tear gas.
 * Tatiana Romanova: I thought it was for tomorrow. But today is the 13th.
 * James Bond: It's a hell of a time to be superstitious.

 * [Kerim Bey is speaking to a Soviet security guard, Benz, who is tied up and gagged on the train.]
 * Kerim Bey: I've had a particularly fascinating life - would you like to hear about it?
 * Benz: [Muffled groan]
 * Kerim Bey: Oh, you would?

 * [Bond wakes up after being knocked out by Donald "Red" Grant, who is now holding him at gunpoint]
 * Donald Grant: Keep still. Alright, now get up on your knees. Put your hands in your pockets. [Bond does so] Keep 'em there.
 * James Bond: Red wine, with fish. Well, that should have told me something.
 * Donald Grant: You may know the right wines... but you're the one on your knees. How does it feel, old man?
 * James Bond: "Old man?" Is that what you chaps in S.M.E.R.S.H. call each other?
 * Donald Grant: [puzzled] S.M.E.R.S.H?
 * James Bond: [frowns, then realizes]... Of course. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. [pause] Then it wasn't a Russian show at all. You've been playing us all against each other, haven't you? Then it was S.P.E.C.T.R.E. who killed the Russian agent in the mosque. [Grant smirks] You?
 * Donald Grant: Mm-hm.
 * James Bond: Kerim, and the other man?
 * Donald Grant: Mm-hm.
 * James Bond: [angrily] And Nash?
 * Donald Grant: [smugly] Oh, I don't mind talking. I get a kick out of watching the great James Bond find out what a bloody fool he's been making of himself. [keeping Bond covered, he pulls Bond's gun out of his pocket and screws a suppressor onto the barrel] We're pros, Mr. Bond. We sweated your recognition code out of one of your men in Tokyo, before he died. Since then, I've been keeping tabs on you. I've been your guardian angel. Saved your life at the gypsy camp.
 * James Bond: [nods] Ah, yes. I am much obliged.
 * Donald Grant: We needed you alive until you could get us the L.E.K.T.O.R.
 * James Bond: So you had me deliver it on a plate. [nods] That's brilliant. Go on, I'm fascinated.
 * Donald Grant: Now that we have it, you and the girl are expendable... between here, and Trieste. [keeping Bond covered with the silenced gun, he puts his own gun away]
 * James Bond:... The girl? Isn't she working for S.P.E.C.T.R.E., too?
 * Donald Grant: No. She thinks she's doing it all for Mother Russia. She takes her orders from Colonel Klebb.
 * James Bond: But Rosa Klebb's Russian- Head of Operations for S.M.E.R.S.H.
 * Donald Grant: Was. Klebb works for S.P.E.C.T.R.E. now. The girl doesn't know that.
 * James Bond: ...Well, then why kill her?
 * Donald Grant: Orders. [pulls a small roll of film from his pocket, smirking] That's only half of it, old man. Here's a roll of film. She'll have it in her handbag. [tosses it on the floor and pulls a letter from his pocket] And on you, they'll find this letter. It's from her, threatening to give the film to the press unless you marry her for helping you get the L.E.K.T.O.R.
 * James Bond: [confused] What film?
 * Donald Grant: [smirking] Taken in the bridal suite of your hotel. Something else the girl didn't know about...or you. (snickers)
 * James Bond: [angrily] It must be a pretty sick collection of minds to dream up a plan like that.
 * Donald Grant: Do you see the headlines? "British Agent Murders Beautiful Russian Spy, then Commits Suicide."
 * James Bond: [scornfully] Tell me- which lunatic asylum did they get you out of?
 * Donald Grant: [stands up, coldly] Don't make it tougher on yourself. [he backhands Bond hard across the face] My orders are to kill you and deliver the L.E.K.T.O.R. How I do it's my business. It'll be slow and painful.
 * James Bond: How much are they paying you?
 * Donald Grant: What's it to you?
 * James Bond: We'll double it.
 * Donald Grant: [steps back, mockingly] Your "word of honor, as an English Gentleman?" [glances at his pistol and smirks] The first one won't kill you...nor the second. Not even the third. [snarling] Not 'til you crawl over here, and you kiss my foot!
 * James Bond: ...How about a cigarette?
 * Donald Grant: Not a chance.
 * James Bond: I'll pay for it.
 * Donald Grant: ...What with?
 * James Bond: Fifty gold sovereigns.
 * Donald Grant: ...Where are they?
 * James Bond: Up there, in my case.
 * [Keeping his gun on Bond, Grant pulls the case down, then tosses it to Bond]
 * Donald Grant: You show me. [Bond opens the case but angles it so that Grant can't see him turning the catches horizontally]
 * James Bond: [pulls out the sovereigns and holds them out] All right, how about that cigarette?
 * Donald Grant: [putting on his killing gloves] Throw 'em down there. [Bond drops the coins by Grant's feet] More in the other case?
 * James Bond: [pretends to think] I should imagine so; it's a standard kit. [pushes his case aside and reaches quickly for Nash's case] I'll have a look.
 * Donald Grant: [sharply] Put your hands back in your pockets. [Bond does so, looking defeated] Keep 'em there.
 * [keeping his gun on Bond, Grant grabs Nash's case and pops open the catches. Because he didn't turn them horizontally first, a tear-gas cartridge inside the case explodes in his face, disorienting him. Bond lunges forward and pins him to the wall. As they struggle, Grant fires, shooting out the main light in the compartment and shattering the train window; Bond finally judo-chops the gun out of his hand. The two men engage in a brutal fistfight; initially Bond has the upper hand due to the gas, but Grant's durability and stamina gradually wear him down. Grant eventually pins his arm, then extends the garrote wire in his wristwatch and wraps it around Bond's neck, trying to strangle him. Bond frantically presses the secret switch on his case that releases a throwing knife; after several tries, he finally gets it, and stabs Grant in the arm. Grant lets go with a howl of pain. Bond turns on him, wraps his own garrote wire around his neck, and throttles him to death. Bond starts to walk away, then turns back and retrieves Grant's gun]
 * James Bond: You won't be needing this... "Old man".

 * Ernst Blofeld: Three men were found dead on the train at Trieste. One of them was Grant. What have you to say, Number Five?
 * Kronsteen: It was Klebb's choice. Her people failed.
 * Rosa Klebb: It was your plan! They followed it implicitly!
 * Kronsteen: Impossible. It was perfect.
 * Rosa Klebb: Except for one thing. They were dealing with Bond!
 * Kronsteen: Who is Bond compared with Kronsteen?
 * Ernst Blofeld: Exactly. What have you to say to that, Number Three? [Klebb says nothing; Blofeld pushes a button on his desk, and Morzeny enters the room] Bond is still alive, and the L.E.K.T.O.R. is not yet in our possession. I have already negotiated with the Russians to return it to them. We've agreed a price. And S.P.E.C.T.R.E always delivers what it promises. [Morzeny comes up behind Klebb and Kronsteen] Our whole organization depends on us keeping those promises. [Morzeny presses one of his boots against the other, and a small spike extends from its' toe] I warned you. We do not tolerate failure, Number Three. You know the penalty.
 * Rosa Klebb: Yes, Number One.
 * Ernst Blofeld: Our rules are very simple. If you fail...
 * [Morzeny draws his spiked boot, turns and kicks Kronsteen, who yelps in pain. Klebb stares at Blofeld in disbelief as Kronsteen succumbs to the poison; still shaking his head in shock, he keels forward and falls in front of the desk.]
 * Ernst Blofeld: Twelve seconds. One day, we must invent a faster-working venom. [Klebb pulls a handnerchief out of her pocket and starts mopping sweat from her brow] Number Three.
 * Rosa Klebb: [hastily puts away her handkerchief] Yes?
 * Ernst Blofeld: I do not wish to have to tell the Russians that there will be another delay.
 * Rosa Klebb: There will be no delay, Number One. There's still time.

 * [Rosa Klebb is shot as she tries to kill Bond with a poisoned blade attached to her shoe.]
 * Tatiana Romanova: Horrible, horrible woman.
 * James Bond: Yes, she had her kicks.

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Goldfinger (film)

Goldfinger is a 1964 film in the James Bond series. Agent Bond attempts to stop Auric Goldfinger, a gold-obsessed smuggler who plans to invade the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.
 * Directed by Guy Hamilton. Written by Richard Maibaum, based on the novel by Ian Fleming.

James Bond is back in action! Everything he touches turns to excitement!taglines

James Bond

 * [After electrocuting an assassin] Shocking. Positively shocking.
 * "Auric Goldfinger." Sounds like a French nail varnish.
 * A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

Auric Goldfinger

 * Man has climbed Mount Everest. Gone to the bottom of the ocean. He has fired rockets at the Moon. Split the atom. Achieved miracles in every field of human endeavour... except crime!
 * Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action." [from the original Ian Fleming novel]

Dialogue

 * [Bond finds Goldfinger cheating at cards in Miami with the help of Jill Masterson:
 * Bond: Tell me, Jill. Why does he do it?
 * Jill: He likes to win.
 * Bond: Why do you do it?
 * Jill: He pays me.
 * Bond: Is that all he pays you for?
 * Jill: And for being seen with him.
 * Bond: Just seen?
 * Jill: Just seen!
 * Bond: Oh, I'm so glad.

 * M: Gold? All over?
 * Bond: She died of skin suffocation. It's been known to happen to cabaret dancers. It's all right as long as you leave a small bare patch at the base of the spine to allow the skin to breathe.
 * M: Someone obviously didn't.
 * Bond: And I know who.

 * Bond: What do you know about gold, Moneypenny?
 * Moneypenny: Oh, the only gold I know about is the kind you wear. You know, [makes motion of inserting ring] on the third finger of your left hand.
 * Bond: One day we really must look into that.
 * Moneypenny: What about tonight? You come round for dinner and I'll cook you a beautiful Angel Cake.
 * Bond: Nothing would give me great pleasure but unfortunately I have a ... business appointment.
 * Moneypenny: That's the flimsiest excuse you've ever given me. Ah well some girls have all the luck. Who is she James?
 * M: [Over the intercom] "She" is me, Miss Moneypenny. And kindly omit the customary byplay with 007, will you? He's dining with me, and I don't want him to be late.
 * Moneypenny: [hopeful] So there's hope for me yet?
 * Bond: Moneypenny...won't you ever believe me?

 * Colonel Smithers: Have a little more of this rather disappointing brandy.
 * M: What's wrong with it?
 * Bond: I'd say it was a 30-year-old fine, indifferently blended, sir, with an overdose of bon-bois.
 * M: Colonel Smithers is giving the lecture, 007.

 * [Q explains the devices on Bond's Aston Martin DB5]
 * Q: Now this one I'm particularly keen about. You see the gear lever here? [points to the gearstick] Now, if you take the top off [opens the cap], you'll find a little red button. [closes the cap, stands up] Whatever you do, don't touch it.
 * Bond: Yeah, why not?
 * Q: Because you'll release [points out the section of roof above the front passenger seat] this section of the roof, and engage and then fire the passenger ejector seat. [gestures] Whish!
 * Bond: Ejector seat? You're joking!
 * Q: I never joke about my work, 007. [Bond falls silent]

 * Bond: [lying face up on a table, with a huge industrial laser slowly slicing its way to his crotch] Do you expect me to talk?
 * Goldfinger: [looks back, laughing] No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die!

 * [After his laser encounter, Bond awakens to find a woman staring at him.]
 * Bond: Who are you?
 * Pussy Galore: My name is Pussy Galore.
 * Bond: [looks away and smiles] I must be dreaming.

 * Bond: You'll kill 60,000 people uselessly.
 * Goldfinger: Hah. American motorists kill that many every two years.
 * Bond: Yes, well, I've worked out a few statistics of my own. 15 billion dollars in gold bullion weighs 10,500 tons. Sixty men would take twelve days to load it onto 200 trucks. Now, at the most, you're going to have two hours before the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines move in and make you put it back.
 * Goldfinger: Who mentioned anything about removing it? [Bond goes silent] The julep tart enough for you?
 * Bond: You plan to break into the world's largest bank, but not to steal anything. Why?
 * Goldfinger: Go on, Mr. Bond.
 * Bond: [thinking] Mr. Ling, the Red Chinese at the factory, he's a specialist in nuclear fission... but of course! His government's given you a bomb.
 * Goldfinger: I prefer to call it an "atomic device." It's small, but particularly dirty.
 * Bond: A dirty bomb? Cobalt and iodine?
 * Goldfinger: Precisely.
 * Bond: Well, if you explode it in Fort Knox, the... the entire gold supply of the United States would be radioactive for... fifty-seven years.
 * Goldfinger: Fifty-eight, to be exact.
 * Bond: I apologize, Goldfinger. It's an inspired deal! They get what they want: economic chaos in the West. And the value of your gold increases many times.
 * Goldfinger: I conservatively estimate, ten times.
 * Bond: Brilliant.

Taglines

 * James Bond is back in action! Everything he touches turns to excitement!
 * Miss Honey and Miss Galore Have James Bond Back For More!
 * Mixing business and girls! Mixing thrills and girls! Mixing danger and girls!

Cast

 * Sean Connery — James Bond
 * Honor Blackman — Pussy Galore
 * Gert Fröbe — Auric Goldfinger
 * Cec Linder — Felix Leiter
 * Desmond Llewelyn — Q
 * Shirley Bassey — "Goldfinger" singer

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Thunderball (film)

Thunderball is a 1965 film in the James Bond series. Agent Bond heads to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.
 * Directed by Terence Young. Written by Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins, based on the novel by Ian Fleming.

Look Up! Look Down! Look Out! Here Comes The Biggest Bond Of All!

James Bond

 * [at Col Jacques Bouvar's funeral] Madame, I've, er, come to offer my... sincere condolences. [punches the "widow" in the face]
 * [placing Fiona's body in a chair after her assassins accidentally shoot her; to other guests] Do you mind if my friend sits this one out? She's just dead.

Dialogue

 * [Emilio Largo has arrived at a SPECTRE board meeting. Throughout the meeting, Blofeld is seated in a glass box covered in shutter blinds.]
 * Ernst Stavro Blofeld/Number 1: Sit down, Number 2. We will discuss your NATO project later. [Largo bows and takes a seat amongst 12 men] I regret to inform you all of the death of SPECTRE Number 6. Colonel Jacques Bouvar was killed by an unknown assassin. His services will be greatly missed. [dims the boardroom lights and shows a map of Earth, with a pulsating light blue pentagram over Japan, on the screen opposite his box] We will now proceed with the area financial reports. Number 7.
 * SPECTRE Number 7: Blackmail of the double agent, Matsou Fujiwa. Unfortunately, only 40 million yen, all the man had.
 * Blofeld/Number 1: Number 10. [the star on the map has settled over France]
 * SPECTRE Number 10: Assassination of Perringe, the French anti-matter specialist who went over to the Russians...three million francs from the Special Department of the Qui d'Orsay.
 * Blofeld/Number 1: Number 5. [the star on the map has settled over the United Kingdom]
 * SPECTRE Number 5: Our consultation fee for the British train robbery, £250,000.
 * Blofeld/Number 1: Number 11.
 * SPECTRE Number 11: Distribution of Red China narcotics in the United States. $2,300,000. Collected by Number 9 and myself.
 * Blofeld/Number 1: Two million three? Our expectations were considerably...higher, Number 11.
 * SPECTRE Number 11: Competition from Latin America. Prices are down.
 * Blofeld/Number 1: I anticipated that factor. Are you quite sure all monies have been accounted for, by yourself and Number 9?
 * SPECTRE Number 11: To the penny, Number 1.
 * Blofeld/Number 1: On the contrary, I have satisfied myself that one of you is clearly guilty of embezzlement. SPECTRE is a dedicated fraternity whose strength lies in the absolute integrity of its members. The culprit is known to me. I have decided on the appropriate action. [Number 11 is nervous that he would be punished, but is surprised when Number 9 is electrocuted and immediately disposed of; the seat moves back up with burn marks on the upholstery] Let us now proceed with new business. We will hear from Number Two, who is in charge of our NATO project, the most ambitious SPECTRE has ever undertaken. Your report, Number Two.
 * Emilio Largo/SPECTRE Number 2: Thank you, Number One. Our intention is to demand a ransom from the North Atlantic Treaty powers of 280 million dollars. A hundred million pounds. I have sent SPECTRE agent Count Lippe to the South of England where he is making the necessary preparations. He is at a health clinic, conveniently located near the NATO air base.

 * Pat Fearing: What exactly do you do?
 * Bond: Oh, I travel... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.

 * Miss Moneypenny: In the conference room. Something pretty big. Every Double-0 man in Europe has been rushed in. And the Home Secretary too.
 * Bond; His wife probably lost her dog.

 * [All MI6 00 agents are sent to an ornate conference room to attend a meeting with the Home Secretary, his right-hand man Kenniston, M, and two RAF officers. Bond arrives late, and M catches him trying to nonchalantly walk to his seat]
 * M: Well, now that we're all here, the Prime Minister has asked the Home Secretary to come and represent him here today. Home Secretary?
 * Home Secretary: Ah, gentlemen. The tape that you are about to hear was received at 10 Downing Street this morning.
 * [M presses the play button on a reel-to-reel tape player in front of him. The SPECTRE message begins to play.]
 * Ernst Stavro Blofeld/Number 1: [on tape] My dear Prime Minister, two atomic bombs, numbers 456 and 457, which were aboard NATO flight 759, are now in the possession of SPECTRE. Unless within the next seven days, your government pays to us one hundred million pounds Sterling, in a manner to be designated by us, we shall destroy a major city in England or the United States of America. Please signal your acceptance of our terms by arranging for Big Ben to strike seven times at 6:00pm tomorrow.
 * [M presses the stop button.]
 * Home Secretary: The Prime Minister and the President have talked together over the hotline, and have agreed that unless the bombs are recovered, payment will have to be made. To avoid general panic, complete secrecy will be maintained, and no press announcements. [To M] The Prime Minister has asked that your department take charge of the operation.
 * M: Thank you sir. [To Air Marshal Sir John] Sir John?
 * [A technician unveils a map behind one painting - a map of Europe, Africa and part of North America, with a large hollow red circle on it.]
 * Air Marshal Sir John: [At the map; pointing] This circle represents the full flying range of the Vulcan. Extensive search has failed to locate any evidence of either a crash or landing, and worldwide reports have proved negative on all airfields large enough to handle the Vulcan. [To M] That's all we have, sir.
 * M: Thank you, Sir John.
 * Home Secretary: Well, I'll leave you to carry on. We'll keep you in touch from Number 10.
 * M: Thank you, sir. [The Home Secretary and Kenniston leave; to the 00 agents] You may now open the folders in front of you. [The 00 agents do so, looking at the papers in them.] Codename... Thunderball. As you can see, we've very little to go on. All the members of the crew had top security clearance. You'll find their photographs and service records in your files. You'll be working with NATO, CIA and all Allied intelligence units. Well, that's all, until you discuss your individual assignments with me.

 * [Bond shows M a picture of Dominique Derval, the Vulcan pilot's sister]
 * M: Do we know where she is now?
 * Bond: Nassau.
 * M: Do you think she's worth going after?
 * Bond: Well, I wouldn't put it quite like that, sir...

 * [As Q is showing Bond new gadgets]
 * Q: It is to be handled with special care!
 * Bond: Everything you give me...
 * Q: ...is treated with equal contempt. Yes, I know.

 * Domino: Vargas's behind you.
 * James Bond: Really?
 * Domino: He must have followed us.
 * [Bond shoots Vargas with a spear gun, pinning him to a coconut tree and killing him]
 * Bond: I think he got the point.
 * Domino: It should have been Largo.

 * [Domino shoots Largo in the back, just as he is about to kill Bond]
 * Domino: I'm glad I killed him.
 * Bond: You're glad...

 * [Bond, Domino and Kutze are about to jump from the Disco Volante as it's about to hit the rocks]
 * Bond: Come on! Jump!
 * Kutze: I didn't learn to swim!
 * Bond: Never too late to learn. [he thrusts the Disco Volante's life ring into Kutze's hands]
 * [They all jump]

Cast

 * Sean Connery - James Bond
 * Claudine Auger - Dominique 'Domino' Derval
 * Adolfo Celi - Emilio Largo, SPECTRE #2
 * Luciana Paluzzi - Fiona Volpe
 * Rik Van Nutter - Felix Leiter
 * Guy Doleman - Count Lippe
 * Molly Peters - Patricia Fearing
 * Martine Beswick - Paula Caplan
 * Bernard Lee - M
 * Desmond Llewelyn - Q
 * Lois Maxwell - Miss Moneypenny

title: Thunderball (film)


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You Only Live Twice (film)

You Only Live Twice is a 1967 film, the the fifth film in the James Bond series, about Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force who must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked.
 * Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Written by Roald Dahl, based on the novel by Ian Fleming.

Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond.taglines

James Bond

 * [about to make love to Helga Brandt] Oh the things I do for England.
 * [Coded message to headquarters after being waylaid by attack helicopters] Little Nelly got a hot reception. Four big shots made improper advances toward her, but she defended her honour with great success.
 * [after bond throws Hans into a piranha tank] Bon appetit.

Dialogue

 * [James is in bed with Ling, a Chinese woman]
 * Bond: Why do Chinese girls taste different from all other girls?
 * Ling: You think we better, huh?
 * Bond: No, just different. Like Peking duck is different from Russian caviar. But I love them both.
 * Ling: Darling, I give you very best duck.

 * Moneypenny: Oh, by the way, how was the girl?
 * Bond: [turns the lamp towards her, interrogation style] Which girl?
 * Moneypenny: The... uh... Chinese one we set you up with?
 * Bond: Another few minutes and I would have found out.

 * [After Dikko Henderson gives Bond a vodka martini]
 * Henderson: Oh, that's uh, stirred, not shaken. That was right, wasn't it?
 * Bond: Perfect.

 * Tiger Tanaka: Permit me to introduce myself. I am Tanaka. Please call me Tiger.
 * Bond: If you're Tanaka, then how do you feel about me?
 * Tanaka: [the code response] I... love you.
 * Bond: Well, I'm glad we got that out of the way.

 * [Bond is in a hot tub with Tiger Tanaka and four beautiful Japanese girls.]
 * Tiger Tanaka: Rule number one: Never do anything yourself when someone else can do it for you.
 * Bond: And number two?
 * Tiger Tanaka: Rule number two: In Japan, men always come first, women come second.
 * Bond: Really? I might just retire to here.

 * [A car chasing Aki and Bond gets picked up by Tanaka's helicopter and gets dropped into the ocean.]
 * Tiger Tanaka: How is that for Japanese efficiency?
 * Bond: Just a drop in the ocean.

 * [Tiger is showing Bond a shooting cigarette.]
 * Tiger: It can save your life, this cigarette.
 * Bond: You sound like a commercial.

 * [Blofeld has summoned Osato and Helga Brandt to his office]
 * Blofeld: An unknown Englishman was in your office the other day.
 * Mr. Osato: Correct, Number One.
 * Blofeld: [shows them an X-ray image of a pistol] Do you know what gun this is?
 * Mr. Osato: [smugly] Walther PPK.
 * Blofeld: Only one person we know uses this sort of gun. James Bond.
 * Mr. Osato: [startled] But Bond is dead!
 * Helga Brandt: It was in all the newspapers!
 * Blofeld: Rubbish. Bond is alive, unless you killed him, Mr. Osato? Don't tell me you let him go.
 * Mr. Osato: I gave Number 11 the strictest orders to eliminate him!
 * Blofeld: And did she?
 * Mr. Osato: She failed!
 * Helga Brandt: [to Osato] You should have killed him yourself! You had plenty of opportunity!
 * Blofeld: This organization does not tolerate failure. [moves his foot over a pedal]
 * Mr. Osato: I know, but do you see, I...
 * Blofeld: GO! [sees Osato cross a bridge and leave the room, heading to the staircase back to the control room; to Helga] Well? [Helga starts to cross the bridge. No sooner is she on it that Blofeld hits the pedal, causing the bridge bottom to drop out, sending her into the piranha-filled water]
 * Helga: Aaaah! Osato! NEIIIIIIIIIIIIN!...[disappears from sight as piranhas kill her, much to the shock of Osato and two Chinese emissaries]
 * Blofeld: [addressing Osato as the bridge closes back up] Kill Bond! Now!
 * Mr. Osato: Yes, Number One! Yes. Yes, yes. [quickly goes up the staircase]

 * [Blofeld has an astronaut that just tried to infiltrate SPECTRE's Bird One rocket brought to him at the command center]
 * SPECTRE Number 3: A new update on target vehicle has been received from computers. We now have T-minus seven minutes and counting.
 * Blofeld: You made a mistake, my friend. No astronaut would enter the capsule, carrying his air conditioner. Remove his helmet! [A guard removes the astronaut's helmet, and Blofeld is surprised who the person is; Osato tries to avoid the astronaut's eyes] James Bond. Allow me to introduce myself. [Leans forward so his head is visible from behind Hans] I am Ernst Stavro Blofeld. They told me you were assassinated in Hong Kong.
 * Bond: Yes, this is my second life.
 * Blofeld: [Pushes Hans out of the way] You only live twice, Mr. Bond.
 * SPECTRE Number 4: Target vehicle passing over central Russia. Approaching Mongolia. Track is as predicted. All computers...
 * Blofeld: [Drowns out SPECTRE Number 4] As you see, I am about to inaugurate a little war. In a matter of hours, when America and Russia have annihilated each other, we shall see a new power dominating the world.
 * Scientist: Target vehicle on scope.
 * Blofeld: [To scientist] Recheck on target vehicle. [To guards] Remove his suit, and search him!
 * SPECTRE Number 3: Reserve astronaut, ready on Bird One.

Taglines

 * Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond.
 * You Only Live Twice...and "TWICE" is the only way to live!

Cast

 * Sean Connery - James Bond
 * Akiko Wakabayashi - Aki
 * Mie Hama - Kissy Suzuki
 * Tetsuro Tamba - Tiger Tanaka
 * Teru Shimada - Mr. Osato
 * Karin Dor - Helga Brandt
 * Donald Pleasence - Ernst Stavro Blofeld
 * Bernard Lee - M
 * Lois Maxwell - Miss Moneypenny
 * Desmond Llewelyn - Q

title: You Only Live Twice (film)


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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service is a 1969 film in the James Bond series. Agent Bond woos a mob boss's daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps that involves beautiful women from around the world.
 * Directed by Peter R. Hunt. Written by Richard Maibaum, based on the novel by Ian Fleming.

James Bond 007 is back!

James Bond

 * This never happened to the other fellow.
 * He had lots of guts!
 * [After Tracy has been shot and killed; to a police officer responding to them] It's... It's all right. It's quite all right, really. She's having a rest. We'll be going on soon. [choking up] There's no hurry, you see. We have all the time in the world.

Dialogue

 * Tracy: Why do you persist in rescuing me, Mr. Bond?
 * Bond: It's becoming quite a habit, isn't it, Contessa Teresa?
 * Tracy: Teresa was a Saint; I'm known as Tracy.
 * Bond: Well, Tracy, next time play it safe and stand on 5.
 * Tracy: People who want to stay alive play it safe.
 * Bond: Please, stay alive! At least for tonight.

 * Draco: My apologies for the way you were brought here. I wasn't sure you'd accept a formal invitation.
 * Bond: There's always something formal about the point of a pistol.

 * [Bond throws a knife and hits a calendar on a bookshelf, on the 14th day]
 * Draco: But today is the thirteenth, Commander.
 * Bond: I'm superstitious.

 * Draco: May I introduce my daughter, Teresa.
 * Bond: Contessa..!
 * Tracy: Mr. Bond and I have already met.
 * Bond: But each time is a renewed pleasure. Madame always makes one feel so welcome!
 * [Tracy leaves]
 * Draco: She likes you! I can see it.
 * Bond: You must give me the name of your oculist.

 * Bond: [about Tracy] I find her fascinating. But she needs a psychiatrist, not me.
 * Draco: What she needs is a man... to dominate her! To make love to her enough to make her love him! A man like you!

 * Blofeld: Merry Christmas, 007.
 * Bond: I'm Sir Hillary Bray.
 * Blofeld: No no no, Mr. Bond. Respectable baronets from the College of Heralds do not seduce female patients in clinics. On the other hand, they do get their professional details... right. The De Bleauchamps tombs are not in the Augsburg Cathedral as you said, but in the Ste. Anna Kirch. Sir Hillary Bray would have known! A small slip. It takes more than a few props to turn 007 into a Herald. [snaps Bond's disguise spectacles in half]
 * Bond: [normal voice] It'll take more than cutting off your earlobes, Blofeld, to turn you into a Count.
 * Blofeld: I may yet surprise you. But I'm afraid you have no more surprises left for me. I know all about your mission, Mr. Bond. [throws Bond's contact's climbing equipment to the ground] Your colleague! Such a keen climber, and a brilliant conversationalist... before he left us.
 * Bond: You realize that he reported where I am.
 * Blofeld: Oh, I doubt that. In any case, no one is coming to your rescue, Mr. Bond. In a few short hours, the United Nations will receive a Yuletide greeting. The information that I now possess the scientific means to control... or to destroy, the economy of the whole world. People will have more important things to think about than you.
 * Bond: If they believe your threat.
 * Blofeld: [chuckles, sits] Oh, they will. In any case, I have prepared a demonstration.  Remember that... disagreeable outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in England, last summer? [lights a cigarette] Well, I shall instruct them, in very convincing terms, exactly how I arranged that.  And my capacity has improved, since.
 * Bond: Allergy vaccines? [pause] Bacteria.  Bacteriological warfare.
 * Blofeld: With a difference.  Our great breakthrough since last summer has been the confection of a certain "Virus Omega".
 * Bond: ...Infertility.
 * Blofeld: Total infertility, in plants and animals.  Not just disease in a few herds, Mr Bond, or a single crop... but the destruction of a whole strain, forever, throughout an entire continent.  If my demands are not met, I shall proceed with the systematic extinction of whole species of cereals and livestock all over the world.
 * Bond: Including, I suppose, the human race?
 * Blofeld: [smirks] I don't think, do you, Mr. Bond, that the United Nations will let it come to that? Not after their scientists analyze a small sample of Virus Omega they have received.
 * Bond: Epidemics of sterility.  Nothing is born, no seed even begins to sprout. [pause] They'll find an antidote.
 * Blofeld: Of course!  If I give them enough time. [stands]
 * Bond: They'll have time.  Once they're warned, you'll have a problem dispensing the stuff.
 * Blofeld: That problem has already been solved.  I have been training my own special... "Angels of Death."
 * Bond: Those girls.
 * Blofeld: Those girls.  And many others like them.
 * Bond: But, exactly how?
 * Blofeld: Mm. [drags on his cigarette]... That will remain my secret.
 * Bond: [smirks] And how many hundred millions do you want for your services this time, Blofeld?
 * Blofeld: "This time?" [chuckles] This time, the price is of another kind. You'll be even more amused when you know what.  In the meanwhile, I will keep you here as my guest.  You'll be very useful in helping to convince the authorities... that I mean what I say.  And I'll do what I claim.

 * [M refuses to authorize an attack on Blofeld]
 * Bond: And the girl who helped me escape? We just leave her there?
 * M: This department is not concerned with your personal problems.
 * Bond: This department owes her a debt. She saved my life.
 * M: Operation Bedlam is DEAD! Do you understand, 007?
 * Bond: Yes, Sir. I understand.

 * Blofeld: Now, if you're very, very nice to me. I could make you my Countess.
 * Tracy: But I'm already a Countess.
 * Blofeld: Whereas if you displease me, I can promise you a very different estate.

 * Q: [wishing Bond luck on his wedding day] Look, James, I know that we haven't always exactly seen... well, anyway, don't forget, if there's anything you ever need...
 * Bond: Thank you, Q, but this time I've got the gadgets and I know how to use them.

Cast

 * George Lazenby - James Bond
 * Diana Rigg - Tracy Di Vicenzo
 * Telly Savalas - Ernst Stavro Blofeld
 * Gabriele Ferzetti - Marc Ange Draco
 * Ilse Steppat - Irma Bunt (final film role)
 * Angela Scoular - Ruby Bartlett
 * Lois Maxwell - Miss Moneypenny
 * Catherine Schell - Nancy
 * George Baker - Sir Hilary Bray
 * Bernard Lee - M
 * Bernard Horsfall - Campbell
 * Desmond Llewelyn - Q

Taglines

 * Far Up! Far Out! Far More! James Bond 007 Is Back!

title: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)


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Repo Man (film)

Repo Man is a 1984 cult film about a white suburban punk teenager living in Los Angeles who becomes a repo man and tries to repossess a strange '64 Chevy Malibu for a reward of $20,000.
 * ''Written and directed by Alex Cox

Miller

 * A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. Give you an example, show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, "plate," or "shrimp," or "plate of shrimp" out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.

 * There ain't no difference between a flying saucer and a time machine. People get so hung up on specifics they miss out on seeing the whole thing. Take South America for example. [In] South America, thousands of people go missing every year. Nobody knows where they go, they just, like, disappear. But if you think about it for a minute, you realize something. There had to be a time when there was no people, right? Well where did all these people come from, huh? I'll tell you where. The future. And where did all these people disappear to? [Otto: The past?] That's right! And how did they get there? Flying saucers. Which are really..? Yeah, you got it, time machines. I think a lot about this kind of stuff.

 * The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.

J. Frank Parnell

 * Beautiful evening. You can almost see the stars!

 * Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year!  They oughta have 'em, too.

Otto Maddox

 * [While watching the Circle Jerks grind out a slow, swinging version of the normally raucous "When the Shit Hits the Fan"] I can't believe I used to like these guys!

Dialogue

 * [Otto is eating out of a can labeled "Food - Meat Flavored"]
 * Mrs. Maddox: Put it on a plate, son. You'll enjoy it more.
 * Otto Maddox [blankly]: Couldn't enjoy it any more, Mom. Mm, mm, mmm.

 * [Duke hurts his hand trying to open the trunk of the Malibu.]
 * Archie: Aw, Dukie Wookie hurt his wittle hand.
 * Duke: Fuck you, Archie! Just for that, you're not in the gang any more.
 * Archie: I'm taking over now.
 * Debbie: Oh, leave it!
 * Archie: King Archie! The Invincible!
 * Duke: Shut up, Archie!
 * Archie: Hey Debbie! Watch this!
 * [Archie opens the trunk and is vaporized by the contents.]
 * J. Frank Parnell [blankly]: Oh, my. What a shame.
 * Debbie: Duke, let's go do those crimes!
 * Duke: Yeah. Let's get sushi... and not pay!

 * Bud: Credit is a sacred trust. It's what our free society was founded on!  Do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia?  [Otto does not answer] I said, "Do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia?"
 * Otto Maddox: They don't pay bills in Russia. It's all free.
 * Bud: Free, my ass. What are you, a fuckin' Commie?
 * Otto Maddox: No, I ain't no Commie!
 * Bud: I don't want no Commies in my car!... No Christians, either!

 * [Duke has been shot in a botched holdup.]
 * Duke: The lights are growing dim. I know a life of crime led me to this sorry fate... And yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am.
 * Otto Maddox: Bullshit! You're a white suburban punk, just like me!
 * Duke: But it still hurts!
 * Otto Maddox: You're gonna be all right. [Duke groans pitifully] Maybe not.

 * Leila: What if he's innocent?
 * Agent Rogersz: No one is innocent. Proceed.

 * [Miller is in the glowing car and gestures to Otto to come with him]
 * Leila: What about our relationship?
 * Otto: [after a pause] What?
 * Leila: Our relationship!
 * Otto: Fuck that! [gets up and walks towards the car]
 * Leila: [angrily] You SHITHEAD! I'm glad I tortured you!

Cast

 * Emilio Estevez - Otto Maddox
 * Harry Dean Stanton - Bud, Repo man
 * Olivia Barash - Leila
 * Tracy Walter - Miller, Repo lot groundskeeper
 * Sy Richardson - Lite, Repo man
 * Tom Finnegan - Oly, Repo man
 * Fox Harris- J. Frank Parnell
 * Susan Barnes - Agent Rogersz

Taglines

 * ...It's 4 A.M., do you know where your car is?

 * Meet Otto. He's a clean-cut kid in a dirty business. He's a Repo Man. He steals cars legally. Now, he's out to repossess a '64 Chevy Malibu...with an amazing reward of $20,000. But Otto is not alone. There are others who want the car and will do anything to get it. The risks are great, because hidden in the trunk is something so incredible it could destroy them all. We'll give you a hint... it glows in the dark.

title: Repo Man (film)


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Richard E. Byrd

Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd (25 October 1888 – 11 March 1957) was a U.S. Naval officer, aviator, and pioneering polar explorer.

Quotes

 * A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
 * As quoted in Struggle : The Life and Exploits of Commander Richard E. Byrd (1928) by Charles John Vincent Murphy, p. 325

 * If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.
 * On his expedition to fly over the North Pole. His claim to have done so is now widely disputed. Skyward (1928)

 * No woman has ever stepped on Little America — and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.
 * As quoted in The Oakland Tribune (26 November 1955)

 * I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause of science set an example of international cooperation.
 * Statement made during International Geophysical Year (IGY) operations in 1957, inscribed on the Byrd Memorial at McMurdo Station, Antarctica

Alone (1938)

 * This book is the account of a personal experience — so personal that for four years I could not bring myself to write it. It is different from anything else I have ever written. My other books have been factual, impersonal narratives of my expeditions and flights. This book, on the other hand, is the story of an experience which was in considerable part subjective. I very nearly died before it was over.
 * Preface

 * That risks were involved, all of us knew; but none, so far as we could foresee, that were too great. Otherwise, as leader of a big polar expedition, and subject to all the responsibilities implicit in command, I could not have gone. That I miscalculated is proved by the fact that I nearly lost my life. Yet, I do not regret going.
 * Ch. 1

 * What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also is to the good. For that experience resolved proportions and relationships for me as nothing else could have done; and it is surprising, approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about.
 * Ch. 1

 * What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but I have found out, as have others who move in and out of newspaper headlines, that on occasion it can matter a good deal. For once you enter the world of headlines you learn there is not one truth but two: the one which you know from the facts; and the one which the public, or at any rate a highly imaginative part of the public, acquires by osmosis.
 * Ch. 1

 * Half the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.
 * Ch. 2

 * I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a whisper. The wind vane pointed toward the South Pole. Presently the wind cups ceased their gentle turning as the cold killed the breeze. My frozen breath hung like a cloud overhead. The day was dying, the night being born — but with great peace. Here were the imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it! That was what came out of the silence — a gentle rhythm, the strain of a perfect chord, the music of the spheres, perhaps. It was enough to catch that rhythm, momentarily to be myself a part of it. In that instant I could feel no doubt of man's oneness with the universe. The conviction came that the rhythm was too orderly, too harmonious, too perfect to be a product of blind chance — that, therefore, there must be purpose in the whole and that man was part of that whole and not an accidental offshoot. It was a feeling that transcended reason; that went to the heart of man's despair and found it groundless. The universe was a cosmos, not a chaos; man was rightfully a part of that cosmos as were the day and night.
 * Ch. 3

 * Solitude is greater than I anticipated. My sense of values is changing, and many things which before were in solution in my mind now seem to be crystallizing. I am better able to tell what in the world is wheat for me and what is chaff. In fact, my definition of success itself is changing.
 * Ch. 6

 * If I had never seen a watch and should see one for the first time, I should be sure its hands were moving according to some plan and not at random. Nor does it seem any more reasonable for me to conceive that the precision and order of the universe is the product of blind chance. This whole concept is summed up in the word harmony. For those who seek it, there is inexhaustible evidence of an all-pervading intelligence.
 * Ch. 6

 * The human race, my intuition tells me, is not outside the cosmic process and is not an accident. It is as much a part of the universe as the trees, the mountains, the aurora, and the stars.
 * Ch. 6

 * The things that mankind has tested and found right make for harmony and progress — or peace; and the things it has found wrong hinder progress and make for discord. The right things lead to rational behavior — such as the substitution of reason for force — and so to freedom. The wrong things lead to brute force and slavery. But the peace I describe is not passive. It must be won. Real peace comes from struggle that involves such things as effort, discipline, enthusiasm. This is also the way to strength. An inactive peace may lead to sensuality and flabbiness, which are discordant. It is often necessary to fight to lessen discord. This is the paradox.
 * Ch. 6

 * When a man achieves a fair measure of harmony within himself and his family circle, he achieves peace; and a nation made up of such individuals and groups is a happy nation. As the harmony of a star in its course is expressed by rhythm and grace, so the harmony of a man's life-course is expressed by happiness; this, I believe, is the prime desire of mankind. "The universe is an almost untouched reservoir of significance and value," and man need not be discouraged because he cannot fathom it. His view of life is no more than a flash in time. The details and distractions are infinite. It is only natural, therefore, that we should never see the picture whole. But the universal goal — the attainment of harmony — is apparent. The very act of perceiving this goal and striving constantly toward it does much in itself to bring us closer, and therefore, becomes an end in itself.
 * Ch. 6

 * Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
 * CH. 7

 * A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold.
 * Ch 7

 * Part of me remained forever at Latitude 80 degrees 08 minutes South: what survived of my youth, my vanity, perhaps, and certainly my skepticism. On the other hand, I did take away something that I had not fully possessed before: appreciation of the sheer beauty and miracle of being alive, and a humble set of values. All this happened four years ago. Civilization has not altered my ideas. I live more simply now, and with more peace.
 * Ch. 12

 * A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.
 * Ch. 12, last lines of the book.

title: Richard E. Byrd


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The Magic School Bus (TV series)

The Magic School Bus is a Canadian-American animated children's television series based on the book series of the same name, which follows a class that goes on fantastical school trips in a magic school bus to learn about science.

Gets Lost in Space [1.1]

 * Ms. Frizzle: As I always say class, you're out of this world.

 * Carlos: Oh no, you don't! You just want to grab more stuff!
 * Janet: Hey I'm just trying to help!

 * Arnold: No one is better than Ms. Frizzle.
 * Janet: Oh yeah, prove it.
 * Arnold: Stop The Bus!

 * Janet: Arnold told me all about your field trips, Dorothy Ann.
 * Dorothy Ann: W-what did he say?!
 * Janet: That they were, and I quote, highly unusual.

For Lunch [1.2]

 * Phoebe: How was I supposed to know that she'd have digestive scuba gear?

 * Carlos: We have to find Wanda before she gets dried up into a raisin.
 * Ralphie: A raisin? Cool.
 * Students: Ralphie!

 * Wanda: ARRRNNNOOOLLLDDD!
 * Arnold: Who said that?
 * Wanda: This is your conscience, Arnold.

 * Arnold: You mean I was the field trip?!

Inside Ralphie [1.3]

 * Phoebe: At my old school we were only afraid of lunch meat!

 * Ralphie: I'm seeing myself from the inside out.

 * Carlos: It's a short cut. Get it? Short cut?
 * Students: Carlos! Yuck!

 * Ralphie: What's going on?
 * Ms. Frizzle: We're here to get the inside story.

Gets Eaten [1.4]

 * Ralphie: Food chain? A chain of food? I can get into that.
 * Keesha: Me too. Phytoplankton, Zooplankton, Fish, and People too. We're all in a food chain, scum, this fish, and you.

Hops Home [1.5]

 * Bella: Bella!
 * Herman: Herman!

Meets the Rot Squad [1.6]

 * [After the bus transforms into a bessy bug]
 * Arnold: Wow! A bessy bus; now I've seen everything!

All Dried Up [1.7]

 * Arnold: Field trip tip number 107: To avoid being eaten, become inedible. What does that mean?!
 * Ms Frizzle: Class, Do I hear a suggestion to avoid digestion?

 * Phoebe: I might have made a mistake about that lizard. And I might have made a mistake about that jackrabbit. And I might have even made a mistake about that tortoise, but there's one thing I know I'm not wrong about.
 * Arnold: How much you wish you'd stayed home today?

In the Haunted House [1.8]

 * Arnold: Aah! Yikes! Ah! All I've got to say is, If I meet anybody I can see through, I'm outta here.
 * Ms. Frizzle: Oh, Whoa. No need to be hasty, Arnold.

Gets Ready, Set, Dough [1.9]

 * Phoebe: At my old school we never got baked. except for the time the air conditioning went.
 * Arnold: We're toast!
 * Dorothy Ann: Well, Technically, No, But you've got the right idea.

Plays Ball [1.10]

 * Dorothy Ann: Listen, A force is just a push or a pull.
 * Carlos: [to Dorothy Ann, who's talking about physics] If you're going to force us to listen to this...
 * Tim: You're being kind of pushy, don't you think?
 * [Carlos and Tim high five.]:
 * Dorothy Ann: No no, I'm talking about real forces. Picture this. There's this big red sled sitting in the snow. Not going anywhere, But if somebody comes along and gives it a push....

Goes to Seed [1.11]

 * [Phoebe doesn't want to get off the bus of fear of Mr. Seedplot seeing them]
 * Arnold: Maybe you should have stayed home today, Phoebe.

 * Ms. Frizzle: Nice propulsion, Arnold!
 * Arnold: Thank you, Ms. Frizzle!

Gets Ants in Its Pants [1.12]

 * Keesha: Keep shooting, Liz!

Kicks Up a Storm [1.13]

 * Ralphie: I'm Weatherman! Of course I know what I'm doing. [whispers to himself] Now what am I doing?

The Busasaurus [2.3]

 * [Arnold goes over to the mud puddle and tries to get out the Maiasaura egg that was for Dr. Skeledon out of it. Luckily, he finds it not broken]
 * Arnold: And I can give Dr. Skeledon back her egg. [notices his giant size to after he fought the T.Rex] Except, I am too big to fit into the bus.

 * Phoebe: It's a good thing you didn't stay home today, Arnold.
 * Arnold: [about Dr. Skeledon's fossilized Maiasaura egg which has been unfossilized back into a real egg and to Phoebe about when it is back to a fossilized egg again] Well, I am sure going to be happy when this is a rock again. It's a lot safer.

Butterfly and the Bog Beast [2.5]

 * Janet: We know the real reason why you make a complete wimp like a butterfly as a mascot.
 * Phoebe: You do?
 * Ralphie: We do?
 * Janet: Isn't today's soccer game against... your old school?

 * Ms. Frizzle: When the road ends, adventure begins!

Wet All Over [2.6]

 * Arnold: Let's just say our field trip made a real splash.

Taking Flight [2.9]

 * Phoebe: [about to shrink the class] Well uh, here goes. Say "fly."
 * Class: Fly!

 * Ms. Frizzle: Sometimes, you have to do the wrong stuff to find out what the right stuff really is.

Getting Energized [2.10]

 * [The class is using Arnold's belt and a pinwheel to model their windmill machine]
 * Arnold: Can I have my belt back now?

 * [Ralphie tries to take the rock out of the catapult, but accidentally launches himself]
 * Ralphie: Whoa!
 * Wanda: Ralphie, come back!

Out of This World [2.11]

 * Carlos: Yeah, you were supposed to be Pluto! Arf, arf! Ha ha!
 * Class: Carlos!

Ups and Downs [2.13]

 * Phoebe: Oh, no; a banana floats!
 * Carlos: That's okay; I like banana splits better!
 * Class: Carlos!

Spins a Web [3.3]

 * General Araneus: This is your general speaking. I'm inside some sort of magical school bus, headed for our top secret location.

 * Phoebe: We have to get that crap before the praying mantis does!
 * Arnold: Don't feel bad, Phoebe. Only a giant spider could trap that general.
 * Phoebe: Yes! Arnold, you're a genius! Isn't he, Ms. Frizzle?
 * Ms. Frizzle: His idea certainly has legs.
 * Arnold: But, uh...I was just joking.
 * Ms. Frizzle: C'mon, bus. Do your stuff!
 * Arnold: I was just joking!

Under Construction [3.4]

 * Ralphie: Gumdrops?
 * Ms. Frizzle: What a sweet idea.

 * Phoebe: This hairpin won't break. It's strong.
 * Ralphie: And hairpins are easy to carry.

 * Mrs. Li: When do they learn to pick up after themselves?

Makes a Rainbow [3.7]

 * Dorothy Ann: It's not purple, it's violet!

 * Arnold: Ding, ding, ding!

Gets Planted [3.10]

 * [Phoebe has been transformed into a bean plant]
 * Phoebe: You mean I'm a bean plant?
 * Dorothy Ann: Not a very big one though.
 * Arnold: And you don't have very many leaves.
 * Phoebe: Hey, give me a break. I've only been a plant for a few seconds.

 * Ms. Frizzle: Fee-fi-fo-fum, only plants chow down on air, water, and sun.

In the Rainforest [3.11]

 * Ms. Frizzle: The plot and the mud thickens.

 * Ms. Frizzle: It can happen, Inspector. But in this case, nothing has been ruined.
 * Inspector 47: It hasn't?
 * Phoebe: No. We can repair the link between peccaries and cocoa beans by returning things to the way they were. Can't we?

Cast

 * Lisa Yamanaka as Wanda Li
 * Lily Tomlin as Valerie Felicity Frizzle
 * Amos Crawley as Arnold Matthew Perlstein (Season 1)
 * Danny Tamberelli as Arnold Matthew Perlstein (Seasons 2-4)
 * Daniel DeSanto as Carlos Ramon
 * Tara Meyer as Dorothy Ann
 * Erica Luttrell as Keesha Franklin
 * Maia Filar as Phoebe Terese
 * Max Beckford as Tim Jamal (Season 1)
 * Andre Ottley-Lorant as Tim Jamal (Seasons 2-4)
 * Stuart Stone as Ralphie Tennelli
 * Renessa Blitz as Janet
 * Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Production Supervisor

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Taxation

To tax (from Latin taxare: to assess or appraise) is an imposition of a compulsory financial charge or levy upon an individual or legal entity by a state or the functional equivalent of a state in order to support that state.

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 * Welfare should be built of more taxpayers. Not by higher taxes.
 * Anders Borg, Swedish Minister of Finance (2010), said in a speech during the election. (In Swedish: "Välfärden skall byggas av fler skattebetalare. Inte av högre skatter.")

 * To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
 * Edmund Burke, speech on American taxation, House of Commons (April 19, 1774); The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, ed. Paul Langford, vol. 2, p. 454 (1981).

 * We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
 * Winston Churchill, “Why I am a Free Trader,” Chapter I in T.W. Stead’s journal Coming Men on Coming Questions (April 13, 1905), bottom p. 9.

 * The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing.
 * Jean-Baptiste Colbert, minister of finance to France’s 17th-century “Sun King”, Louis XIV

 * And I'm the one who will not raise taxes. My opponent now says he'll raise them as a last resort, or a third resort. But when a politician talks like that, you know that's one resort he'll be checking into. My opponent, my opponent won't rule out raising taxes. But I will. And the Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no. And they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again, and I'll say, to them, Read my lips: No new taxes!
 * George Bush, Acceptance speech, New York Times (August 19, 1988).

 * Governments create nothing and have nothing to give but what they have first taken away — you may put money in the pockets of one set of Englishmen, but it will be money taken from the pockets of another set of Englishmen, and the greater part will be spilled on the way. Every vote given for Protection is a vote to give Governments the right of robbing Peter to pay Paul and charging the public a handsome commission on the job.
 * Winston Churchill, “Why I am a Free Trader,” Chapter I in T.W. Stead’s journal Coming Men on Coming Questions (April 13, 1905), bottom p. 9.

 * It has been said, “What does it mean—it is taxpayers’ money.” It is money taken from the pockets of the people of the country; it is taken from the necessities and comforts of the working classes. Agriculture, steel, iron, shipbuilding, are all suffering too, and in some cases and in many parts, the conditions both of hours and labour are worse in those industries than they are in the coal industry, or parts of it. How can you justify the whole country being forced to pay this particular levy almost indefinitely, when there is no prospect of any solution?
 * Winston Churchill, On the General Strike (May 3, 1926)

 * Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
 * Albert Camus, Caligula, act 1, sc. 8, Pléiade (1962).

 * World War II was . . . responsible for considerable changes in the U.S. federal income tax. Not only were rates increased, but the base was extended to cover most of the working population. Even as late as 1939, only 6 percent of U.S. citizens had to file an income tax return; by 1945 this had increased to over 70 percent . . . By 1945 the major features of the current federal tax system were in place.
 * Susan B. Hansen, The Politics of Taxation: Revenue Without Representation, New York: NY, Praeger (1983) p. 86.

 * There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist — the taxidermist leaves the hide.
 * Mortimer Caplin, American bureaucrat, Director of the IRS. Time magazine, (Feb. 1, 1963)

 * The Inland Revenue is not slow, and quite rightly, to take every advantage which is open to it under the Taxing Statutes for the purposes of depleting the taxpayer’s pocket. And the taxpayer is in like manner entitled to be astute to prevent, so far as he honestly can, the depletion of his means by the Inland Revenue.
 * James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde (1863-1944), Ayrshire Pullman Motor Services and Ritchie v. Inland Revenue (1929) 14 Tax Case 754.

 * So in a lot of other developed countries, you essentially get a tax return that's already been filled out by the tax agency, and you sort of just look it over and click submit. One of the reasons that doesn't happen here is the influence and lobbying of the for-profit tax prep industries. And there's been really decades of lobbying by that industry to ensure that the IRS doesn't take a sort of more robust role in helping people file their taxes.
 * ProPublica reporter Justin Elliott has been reporting on free filing for nine years How you can file your taxes online for free (March 19, 2022)

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 * If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Compensation,” Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).

 * In-tax-i-ca-tion [in-tak-si-KEY-shuh n] (noun) – The short-term euphoria associated with a tax refund that fades when you realize you are getting your own money back, interest-free, over a year later.
 * Jamie Golombek, Managing Director, Tax and Estate Planning, CIBC Private Wealth, according to Intaxication: Why getting a tax refund may be a sign of poor financial planning (March 2022)

 * When a government taxes you, it takes something you own without your consent. That’s exactly what a thief does. The main difference is that the thief is breaking the law, whereas the government is (usually) taking your money legally.
 * David R. Henderson, The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey, Financial Times/Prentice Hall (2002) p. 217.

 * Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their money’s worth, except for these.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Politics,” Essays: Second Series, in The Complete Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 1, p. 302 (1929).

 * I’m tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to “keep people in their homes.” Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I’m willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the leftwing Congresscritters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the that created the bubble help them—with their own money.
 * Robert A. Hall, I'm Tired (February 19, 2009)

 * The thugs and bullies of the Internal Revenue Service, as properly befits their disposition, consider the tax rebels, the tax resister, the worst of all criminals . . . The marauders of the Internal Revenue Service, with strict quotas for how much they have to squeeze from taxpayers, descend on ordinary working people like locusts and plague them even unto death.”
 * Karl Hess Dear America, William Morrow (1975) p. 6

 * I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him.
 * , Commissioner of Internal Revenue, U.S. News & World Report (May 25, 1956)

 * Mr. Gladstone, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, had interrupted him in a description of his work on electricity to put the impatient inquiry: 'But, after all, what use is it?' Like a flash of lightning came the response: 'Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it!'
 * Michael Faraday, in James Kendall, Michael Faraday, Man of Simplicity, Introduction (1955), p. 14.

 * Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
 * Benjamin Franklin, Letter to M. Leroy (Nov. 13, 1789). Complete Works, vol. 10, ed. John Bigelow (1887-1888).

 * The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever. ..
 * Benjamin Franklin, Speech to the Constitutional Convention, (June 2, 1787).

 * The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with representation.
 * John Kenneth Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty, Chapter 6, p. 180.

 * Taxes — money that is taken by that big thief called the government.
 * Uchiyama Gudō, Anarchist Communist Revolution: In Commemoration of Imprisonment (1908), translated by in

I to N

 * Taxes were part of the decurions’ mandate, and often they collected them, but originally taxpayers perceived them as their representatives, as American scholar noted in the 1920s. If they collected more taxes than expected, they redistributed the surplus among the taxpayers, something which should remain to this day a principle of [taxational] justice but one that not all countries practice.
 * Massimo Introvigne, "The Decurions, Parliamentarianism, and Tai Ji Men", Bitter Winter (2023)
 * Curator's Note: In the civil administration of the ancient Roman Empire, a decurion was a member of a local assembly, the local version of the Senate that was in charge of administering a city or a colony and its finances.

 * Tax offices internationally try to expand the taxation of religious properties by using a variety of arguments. Most of them are not persuasive and raise serious problems of discrimination of minorities and violations of freedom of religion or belief.
 * Massimo Introvigne, "Canada’s Shin Mei: No Tax Exemption for Shinto Place of Worship", Bitter Winter (February 13, 2024)

 * If the state would be allowed to tax religious and spiritual organizations, it would have the power to control them by modulating taxes. As the U.S. Supreme Court stated in the 1819 decision “,” “the power to tax involves the power to destroy.” American legal scholar Ken Jacobsen has discussed the implications of this principle for the Tai Ji Men case. Religious liberty thus requires that religions be tax-exempt, and the exemption in fact preserves the principle of separation rather than denying it.
 * Massimo Introvigne, "Why Spiritual Organizations Should Be Tax-Exempt—Including Tai Ji Men", Bitter Winter (May 2024)

 * No country ever takes notice of the revenue laws of another.
 * Lord Mansfield, Hohnan v. Johnson (1775), 1 Cowp. 343.
 * Also: "* One nation does not take notice of the revenue laws of another". Lord Mansfield, Planche and another v. Fletcher (1779), 1 Doug. 253. See also per Abbott, C.J., James v. Catherwood (1823), 3 D. & R. 191; per Rolfe, B., Bristow v. Sequeville (1850), 5 Ex. 279.

 * Taxes are the existence of the state expressed in economic terms. Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list—the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
 * Karl Marx, Moralizing Criticism and Critical Morality (1847).

 * Death and taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them!
 * , Scarlett O’Hara, in Gone With the Wind, vol. 2, pt. 4, ch. 38 (1936).

 * Indoors or out, no one relaxes In March, that month of wind and taxes, The wind will presently disappear, The taxes last us all the year.
 * Ogden Nash, “Thar She Blows,” Versus (1949).

 * I am not paying taxes because the overwhelming percentage of the budget goes for war purposes. I do not wish to participate in any phase of the collection of such taxes. I do not even want to act as if I think that anyone, including the government, has a right to punish me for an act which I consider honorable.
 * Juanita Morrow Nelson A Matter of Freedom (1988)

O to S

 * The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits.
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., dissenting, Panhandle Oil Company v. Mississippi ex rel. Knox, Attorney General, 277 U.S. 223 (1928).

 * We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.
 * Ronald Reagan, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1982

 * Members of the privileged groups inside Africa always defend themselves by saying that they pay the taxes which keep the government going. At face value this statement sounds reasonable, but on close examination it is really the most absurd argument and shows total ignorance of how the economy functions. Taxes do not produce national wealth and development. Wealth has to be produced out of nature—from tilling the land or mining metals or felling trees or turning raw materials into finished products for human consumption. These things are done by the vast majority of the population who are peasants and workers. There would be no incomes to tax if the laboring population did not work. The incomes given to civil servants, professionals, merchants, come from the store of wealth produced by the community.
 * Walter Rodney,

 * One of the main purposes of the colonial taxation system was to provide requisite funds for administering the colony as a field of exploitation. European colonizers insured that Africans paid for the upkeep of the governors and police who oppressed them and served as watchdogs for private capitalists. Indeed, taxes and customs duties were levied in the nineteenth century with the aim of allowing the colonial powers to recover the costs of the armed forces which they dispatched to conquer Africa. In effect, therefore, the colonial governments never put a penny into the colonies. All expenses were met by exploiting the labor and natural resources of the continent; and for all practical purposes the expense of maintaining the colonial government machinery was a form of alienation of the products of African labor.
 * Walter Rodney,

 * A country’s wealth comes not from taxes but from production.
 * Walter Rodney,

 * Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.
 * Peter Schiff, "Peering into the Abyss", 29 March 2009.

 * Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
 * George Bernard Shaw, Caesar, in Caesar and Cleopatra, act 2 (1901).

 * A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
 * George Bernard Shaw, Everybody's Political What's What? (1944), chapter 30, p. 256.

 * If ... the tax scheme allows enormous intergenerational wealth transfers within families, some families will maintain considerable socioeconomic advantages over others, which allows them to provide better educations and better environments (both residential and familial) for their children, and their children's children. ... Even in a constitutional democracy in which each citizen has a publicly recognized claim to all the basic political and civil liberties, these socioeconomic inequalities would create an informal social hierarchy by birth: some would be born into great wealth and other social and political advantages while others would be born into poverty and its associated disadvantages. ... If, because a social scheme had the characteristics described above, the life prospects of some children were vastly inferior to those of others, it would be reasonable to regard these disadvantaged children as members of the lowest stratum in a descent-based social hierarchy. When such a hierarchy is, and has long been, marked by racial distinctions, equal citizenship, in any meaningful sense, does not obtain. In a society with an established democratic tradition, such a quasi-feudal order does not warrant the allegiance of its most disadvantaged members, especially when these persons are racially stigmatized. Indeed, the existence of such an order creates the suspicion that, despite the society's ostensible commitment to equal civil rights, white supremacy has simply taken a new form.
 * Tommie Shelby, "Justice, Deviance, and the Dark Ghetto," Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 35, no. 2 (2007), pp. 126–160

 * Men who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light.
 * Sydney Smith, On American Debts.

 * It is true that the theory of our Constitution is, that all taxes are paid voluntarily; that our government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily entered into by the people with each other; that each man makes a free and purely voluntary contract with all others who are parties to the Constitution, to pay so much money for so much protection, the same as he does with any other insurance company; and that he is just as free not to be protected, and not to pay any tax, as he is to pay a tax, and be protected. But this theory of our government is wholly different from the practical fact.  The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life.  And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.  The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets.  But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful.  The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act.  He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit.  He does not pretend to be anything but a robber.  He has not acquired impudence enough to profess to be merely a "protector," and that he takes men's money against their will, merely to enable him to "protect" those infatuated travellers, who feel perfectly able to protect themselves, or do not appreciate his peculiar system of protection.  He is too sensible a man to make such professions as these.  Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do.  He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful "sovereign," on account of the "protection" he affords you.  He does not keep "protecting" you, by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that; by robbing you of more money as often as he finds it for his interest or pleasure to do so; and by branding you as a rebel, a traitor, and an enemy to your country, and shooting you down without mercy, if you dispute his authority, or resist his demands.  He is too much of a gentleman to be guilty of such impostures, and insults, and villainies as these.  In short, he does not, in addition to robbing you, attempt to make you either his dupe or his slave.  The proceedings of those robbers and murderers, who call themselves "the government," are directly the opposite of these of the single highwayman.  In the first place, they do not, like him, make themselves individually known; or, consequently, take upon themselves personally the responsibility of their acts.  On the contrary, they secretly (by secret ballot) designate some one of their number to commit the robbery in their behalf, while they keep themselves practically concealed.
 * Lysander Spooner, No Treason (1867–1870), No. VI: The Constitution of No Authority (1870), pp. 12–13

 * The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be the cause, and to be dictated by the liquor of which it so effectually promotes the use; for surely it never before was conceived by any man entrusted with the administration of public affairs, to raise taxes by the destruction of the people.
 * Philip Dormer Stanhope, from a speech in the House of Lords (Feb. 22, 1743), on the Gin Licensing Act, recorded in The Parliamentary History of England to the Year 1803, vol. XII.

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 * Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always be considerable, either because taxes cannot touch those who vote for them or because they are assessed in a way to prevent that.
 * Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 5 (1840).

 * In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
 * Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 5 (1840).

 * I hope they don't raise your taxes, but if they do, I told you so.
 * Donald Trump in Trump departs Washington a pariah as his era in power end January 20, 2021

 * There should be left only so much to the Hindus that neither, on the one hand, they should become arrogant on account of their wealth, nor, on the other, desert their lands in despair.
 * Ordinance by Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq, quoted in Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 7

 * What is the difference between a taxidermist & a tax-collector? The taxidermist only takes your skin.
 * Mark Twain, Mark Twain’s Notebook, editor, Albert Bigelow Paine, (1st ed.) New York: NY, Harper & Brothers, 1935, p. 379

 * Theft consists of taking a man’s property against his will, regardless of the beneficiary. If the individual has an inalienable right to his own life, liberty and property, then morally his life and property are his to do with as he pleases.
 * David K. Walter, as quoted in Facets of Liberty: A Libertarian Primer, edited L.K. Samuels, Freeland Press (2009), from chapter 9, “Taxation is Theft”, p. 92.

 * An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy.
 * Daniel Webster, McCulloch v. Maryland 17 U.S. 327 (1819). Usually reported as "The power to tax is the power to destroy". Webster, in arguing the case, said: "An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy", 17 U.S. 327 (1819). Chief Justice John Marshall reflected this in his decision, saying: "That the power of taxing it [the bank] by the States may be exercised so as to destroy it, is too obvious to be denied" (p. 427), and "That the power to tax involves the power to destroy … [is] not to be denied" (p. 431).

 * Please understand my position. It is, and has always been, the policy of this House to operate on a cash basis; I'm sure you understand why—taxes, a necessary evil, but perhaps more evil than necessary.
 * Ysabeau S. Wilce, The Lineaments of Gratified Desire (2006), reprinted in Rich Horton (ed.) Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2007, p. 179

Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)

 * In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
 * Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, ed. Benjamin F. Wright, no. 30, p. 234 (1961).

 * Every good citizen … should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes … to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.
 * Cordell Hull, remarks in the House, April 26, 1913, Congressional Record, vol. 50, p. 505.

 * If the Government cannot reduce the "terrific" tax burden on the country, I will predict that you will have a depression that will curl your hair, because we are just taking too much money out of this economy that we need to make the jobs that you have to have as time goes on.
 * George M. Humphrey, secretary of the treasury, at a news conference on January 15, 1957, as reported by The New York Times, January 17, 1957, p. 20. On January 16, President Eisenhower sent to Congress a record peacetime budget of $71.8 billion.

Attributed

 * The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.
 * Variously attributed to Jean Baptiste Colbert, minister of finance to Louis XIV of France; and Cardinal Mazarin, under whom Colbert served. Reported in Burton Stevenson, ed., The Home Book of Quotations (1967), 10th ed., p. 2300f, no. 5.

 * We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect.
 * Attributed to Harry L. Hopkins, administrator of the Works Progress Administration. Although Frank R. Kent mentioned the subject of "spending, taxes, and election" in reference to Hopkins in his column, "The Great Game of Politics" (Baltimore, Maryland, Sun, September 25, 1938, p. 1, 16) he first attributed "we are going to spend and spend and spend, and tax and tax and tax, and elect and elect and elect" to Hopkins in the Sun (October 14, 1938), p. 15. Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner in their column, "The Capital Parade" (Washington, D.C., Evening Star, November 9, 1938, p. A–11), elaborated Hopkins's "probably apocryphal" words to: "Now, get this through your head. We're going to spend and spend and spend, and tax and tax and tax, and re-elect and re-elect and re-elect, until you're dead or forgotten." Arthur Krock, in his column, "In the Nation" (The New York Times, November 10, 1938, p. 26), reported the wording as "we will spend and spend, and tax and tax, and elect and elect". He repeated this wording in The New York Times (November 13, 1938), sec. 4, p. E–3. A letter by Hopkins denying this attributed quotation and a response by Krock were published in The New York Times, November 24, 1938, p. 26. Over the years the quotation attributed to Hopkins has evolved into the wording above.

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