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“My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“Liberalism in various guises - feminism, the sexual revolution, gay activism - has been at war with marriage and family for several decades now. And when do-gooders look around at the wreckage of human lives caused by disintegrating families, they call for government to act as father, mother, brother, and sister.”

Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us

“It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.”

Needs Ends Seems Father Figures Revolution Personality Chinese Cult Father Figure

Author:John Lennon

“People of Haiti, I am the heir to the political philosophy, the doctrine and the revolution which my late father incarnated as president-for-life [and] I have decided to continue his work with the same fierce energy and the same intransigence.”

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Author:Jean-Claude Duvalier

“It was ironic but somehow fitting that the 1905 Revolution should have been started by an organisation dreamed up by the tsarist regime itself. No-one believed more than Father Gapon in the bond between Tsar and people.”

People Should Has Beens Father Revolution Should Have Ironic Regimes Should Have Been Fitting Organisation

Book:A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution

Source: A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution

“In a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people. Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country alarmed at one common danger came forth to meet it.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I'm working on a novel about a girl who grows up in the circus and her relationship with her father, who grew up in Hungary when it was under Soviet control and left during the 1956 revolution. It is told from both of their perspectives, and has been a joy (and very frustrating) to research and write. Needless to say, I am very excited about my next project!”

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Author:Liza Campbell

“The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.”

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Author:Howard Rheingold

“Today, we're fighting a new war to defend our liberty and our people and our way of life. And as we work to advance the cause of freedom around the world, we remember that the father of our country believed that the freedoms we secured in our revolution were not meant for Americans alone.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.”

Source: An Eulogy on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, etc

“Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were very much afraid if that because they'd just had this experience with this far-away government that had centralized thought process and planning and what have you, and then it was actually the reason that we fought the revolution in the 16th century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown if you will.”

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Author:Rick Perry