Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Monthly Archives: April 2023
I would say to the House, as I said to those who …
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government, ‘I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat’. Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman and Prime Minister (1940-1945; 1951-1955) 1874-1965
The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the …
The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain communism, it will transcend communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we’ll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written. Ronald Reagan
1981
We must all hang together or, assuredly, we shall all hang separately. …
We must all hang together or, assuredly, we shall all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 17761706-1790
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‘A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe.’– President Obama, Feb. 4.Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared “we have chosen hope over fear.” Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill. Charles Krauthammer
February 6, 2009; A17, WSJ.
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[T]he presidency is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States, 1882-1945 (Wall Street Journal, December 8, 1998)
I finished your book yesterday. . . Since I read Von Baer’s Essays …
I finished your book yesterday. . . Since I read Von Baer’s Essays nine years ago no work on Natural History Science I have met with has made so great an impression on me & I do most heartily thank you for the great store of new views you have given me. . .As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite. . .I trust you will not allow yourself to be in any way disgusted or annoyed by the considerable abuse & misrepresentation which unless I greatly mistake is in store for you. . . And as to the curs which will bark and yelp — you must recollect that some of your friends at any rate are endowed with an amount of combativeness which (though you have often & justly rebuked it) may stand you in good stead — I am sharpening up my claws and beak in readiness Thomas Henry Huxley
1825-1895, Letter of T. H. Huxley to Charles Darwin, November 23, 1859, regarding the Origin of Species
They call a movie art house until they find out people like …
They call a movie ‘art house’ until they find out people like it, in which case its mainstream. David Mamet
Playwright and screenwriter, U.S. News & World Report, January 8, 2001
You think it’s a conspiracy by the networks to put bad …
You think it’s a conspiracy by the networks to put bad shows on TV. But the shows are bad because that’s what people want. It’s not like Windows users don’t have any power; I think they are happy with Windows, and that’s an incredibly depressing thought. Steve Jobs
Co-founder, Apple Computer Inc.
Now I have read it and reread it, and have come to …
Now I have read it and reread it, and have come to accept the characters as old friends; and I am almost more fond of it than of your previous books. Indeed, I feel about going to Africa very much as the sea-faring rat did when he almost made the water-rat wish to forsake everything and start wandering! Theodore Roosevelt
On The Wind in the Willows