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We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)

by Richard Osman

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Jul 14, 2026 09:33AM

“Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism."

[Address to National Press Club in Washington DC, as quoted in Freedom and Union (April 1952)]”
― Earl Warren

tags: benefits, entitlements, government, politics, progress, socialism

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“The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

tags: government, patriotism, politics

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“Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment

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“In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.”
― H.L. Mencken