"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
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The Banshees of Inisherin
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I do feel sometimes I'm just entertaining myself while staving off the inevitable. Don't you?
No.
Sure you do.
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You, Colm, you know what you used to be?
No Pádraic what did I used to be?
Nice! You used to be nice! And now, do you know what you are? Not nice.
I suppose niceness doesn't last then does it Pádraic. But I'll tell you something that does last.
What? And don't say something stupid lIke music.
Music lasts.
I knew it!
And paintings last. And poetry lasts.
So does niceness.
Do you know who they'll remember for how nice he was in the seventeenth century?
Who?