It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic. Winston Churchill
1898, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman and Prime Minister (1940-1945; 1951-1955) 1874-1965
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The pig if I am not mistaken supplies us sausage, ham, and …
The pig if I am not mistakensupplies us sausage, ham, and bacon. Let others say his heart is bigI call it stupid of the pig. O. Nash
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind …
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits Thomas Jefferson
1816 (1743-1826).(Investor’s Business Daily, November 25, 1998)
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are …
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)
IF IT WERE UP TO ME WE’D BAN THEM ALL U….
IF IT WERE UP TO ME WE’D BAN THEM ALL U.S. Representative Mel Reynolds (D) CNN Crossfire 12/9/93 on gunsThe Constitution shall never be construed…to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. Samuel Adams, Debates & Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87’A free people ought..to be armed…’ George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is …
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous. Unknown
We feel, and the Defense Department feels, that problem is not going …
We feel, and the Defense Department feels, that problem is not going to be aproblem. Of course, it can’t be a problem. We won’t allow it to be a problem….We’re confident that it is going to be solved, but we’re going to be doubly, triplyand quadrupally confident that it’s going to be solved before September of thisyear. Al Gore
Quoted on San Jose Mercury News Gore says U.S. will be ready for Y2K February 28,1999.
The threat posed by humans to the natural environment is nothing compared …
The threat posed by humans to the natural environment is nothing compared to the threat to humans posed by global environmental policy. Fred L. Smith
1992
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn. Clark Gable to …
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.
Clark Gable to Vivien Leigh in Gone With The Wind, 1939
Kill a man, one is a murderer; kill a million, a conqueror; …
Kill a man, one is a murderer; kill a million, a conqueror; kill them all, a God. Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand (1894-1977), French biologist, writer. PensZes d’un Biologiste (1939; repr. in The Substance of Man, 1962, p. 68).