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Sheriff Roland:
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."

-- Karl Marx

Sheriff Roland:
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth."

-- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

Sheriff Roland:
"This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Sheriff Roland:
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

-- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Sheriff Roland:
"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."

-- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson

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