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  1. "People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf"

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    2. EvilMonkee

      EvilMonkee

      Its a slight misquote but yeh it was Orwell

    3. EvilMonkee

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      "We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us."

      • Alternative: "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
      • Alternative: "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."
      • Commonly misattributed to George Orwell without citation. Sometimes also misattributed to Winston Churchill without citation.
      • Actual source: Quote Investigator found the earliest known appearance in a 1993 Washington Times essay by Richard Grenier: "As George Orwell pointed out, people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." The absence of quotation marks indicates that Grenier was using his own words to convey his interpretation of Orwell's opinion, as seen in citations below.
      • In his 1945 "Notes on Nationalism", Orwell wrote that pacifists cannot accept the statement "Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.", despite it being "grossly obvious.""Notes on Nationalism"
      • In an essay on Rudyard Kipling, Orwell cited Kipling's phrase "making mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep" (Kipling, Tommy), and further noted that Kipling's "grasp of function, of who protects whom, is very sound. He sees clearly that men can be highly civilized only while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them." (1942)
      • Similar phrase: "I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it." – Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men)

       

      ROFL :P

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