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    “Had he but spared his tongue and pen
    He might have rose like other men;
    But power was never in his thought,
    And wealth he valued not a groat;”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    “He won’t come after me. He won’t. I can’t explain it. He’d consider that rude.”
    —Ted Tally, U.S. screenwriter, and Jonathan Demme. Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster)

    “Where fierce indignation can no longer tear his heart.
    [Ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit.]”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    “Our fear that Communism might some day take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.”
    —Anonymous U.S. Analyst In 1967. Quoted in “The Uses of Anticommunism,” vol. 21, published in The Socialist Register (1985)