This is what they said about…..
1. Hey, hey, L.B.J., how many kids did you kill today? – Graffiti [At period of Vietnam War, Quoted in Robert Reisner, Graffiti]
2. The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy – General Omar Bradley (1893-1981) [at the Senate inquiry over General MacArthur’s proposal to carry the Korean Conflict into Chine, 15 May 1951]
3. When I invented the phrase ‘His Majesty’s Opposition’ [Canning] paid me a compliment on the fortunate hit- John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton (1786-1869) [Recollections of a long life, ii Ch.12]
4. So?- Dick Cheney former US vice-president, when told that two-thirds of Americans did not support the war in Iraq.
5. If I had been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better arrangement of the universe- Alfonso the wise, king of Castile (1221-1284) [in W.R Inge, the End of an Age]
6. So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word- Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976)
7. I cannot forgive Descartes; in all his philosophy he did his best to dispense with God. But he could not avoid making Him set the world in motion with a flip of His thumb; after that he had no more use of God- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
8. I don’t really feel like I need to respond to people that view it that way- Laura Bush, former First Lady, on critics who say that her husband’s presidency was a failure.
9. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs- Christopher Hampton (1946-) [Quoted in the Sunday Times Magazine, 16 Oct. 1977)
10. It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America- Barack Obama [U.S. President, during his victory speech in Chicago’s Grant Park after winning the 2008 presidential election]
11. I have called this principle, by which slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of ‘natural selection’- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) [On the origin of species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the struggle for life]
12. How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese- Charles de Gaulle.
13. What is not clear is not French- Antoine De Rivarol (1753-1801)
14. Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today – Vice-Admiral Earl Beatty (1871-1936), [Attr. On sinking of battle-cruisers at Battle of Jutland, 30 May 1916, according to Winston Churchill]
15. ‘Why, what the D---l,’ cried the Captain, ‘do you come to the play, without knowing what it is?’
‘O yes, Sir, yes, very frequently; I have no time to read the play-bills; one merely comes to meet one’s friends, and show that one’s alive - Fanny Burney (1752-1840) [MME D’ARBLAY]
16. We could have saved six pence. We have saved fivepence (Pause) But at what cost? – Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) [All that Fall]
17. You won’t have Nixon to kick around any more, gentlemen. This is my last Press Conference- President Richard Nixon (1913-1994) [Press conference for governorship of California, 7 Nov. 1962]
18. You will find it very good practice always to verify your references, sir- Martin Routh (1755-1854) [Attr. By Burgon in Quarterly Review, July 1878]
19. The pyramids themselves, doting with age have forgotten the names of their founders- Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
20. All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) [The age of uncertainty]
21. He intended, he said, to devote the rest of his life to learning the remaining twenty-two letters of the alphabet- George Orwell (1903-1950)
22. What is hateful to you don’t do to another. This is the whole Torah [i.e. Law]; the rest is commentary- Hillel (A.D. 1st-6th cent) Rabbinical writings
23. To be alone is the fate of all great minds- a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
24. A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone- Henry A. Kissinger (1923-) [White House Years]
25. There will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed , my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers- Plato (428-347 B.C.)
1. Hey, hey, L.B.J., how many kids did you kill today? – Graffiti [At period of Vietnam War, Quoted in Robert Reisner, Graffiti]
2. The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy – General Omar Bradley (1893-1981) [at the Senate inquiry over General MacArthur’s proposal to carry the Korean Conflict into Chine, 15 May 1951]
3. When I invented the phrase ‘His Majesty’s Opposition’ [Canning] paid me a compliment on the fortunate hit- John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton (1786-1869) [Recollections of a long life, ii Ch.12]
4. So?- Dick Cheney former US vice-president, when told that two-thirds of Americans did not support the war in Iraq.
5. If I had been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better arrangement of the universe- Alfonso the wise, king of Castile (1221-1284) [in W.R Inge, the End of an Age]
6. So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word- Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976)
7. I cannot forgive Descartes; in all his philosophy he did his best to dispense with God. But he could not avoid making Him set the world in motion with a flip of His thumb; after that he had no more use of God- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
8. I don’t really feel like I need to respond to people that view it that way- Laura Bush, former First Lady, on critics who say that her husband’s presidency was a failure.
9. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs- Christopher Hampton (1946-) [Quoted in the Sunday Times Magazine, 16 Oct. 1977)
10. It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America- Barack Obama [U.S. President, during his victory speech in Chicago’s Grant Park after winning the 2008 presidential election]
11. I have called this principle, by which slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of ‘natural selection’- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) [On the origin of species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the struggle for life]
12. How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese- Charles de Gaulle.
13. What is not clear is not French- Antoine De Rivarol (1753-1801)
14. Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today – Vice-Admiral Earl Beatty (1871-1936), [Attr. On sinking of battle-cruisers at Battle of Jutland, 30 May 1916, according to Winston Churchill]
15. ‘Why, what the D---l,’ cried the Captain, ‘do you come to the play, without knowing what it is?’
‘O yes, Sir, yes, very frequently; I have no time to read the play-bills; one merely comes to meet one’s friends, and show that one’s alive - Fanny Burney (1752-1840) [MME D’ARBLAY]
16. We could have saved six pence. We have saved fivepence (Pause) But at what cost? – Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) [All that Fall]
17. You won’t have Nixon to kick around any more, gentlemen. This is my last Press Conference- President Richard Nixon (1913-1994) [Press conference for governorship of California, 7 Nov. 1962]
18. You will find it very good practice always to verify your references, sir- Martin Routh (1755-1854) [Attr. By Burgon in Quarterly Review, July 1878]
19. The pyramids themselves, doting with age have forgotten the names of their founders- Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
20. All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) [The age of uncertainty]
21. He intended, he said, to devote the rest of his life to learning the remaining twenty-two letters of the alphabet- George Orwell (1903-1950)
22. What is hateful to you don’t do to another. This is the whole Torah [i.e. Law]; the rest is commentary- Hillel (A.D. 1st-6th cent) Rabbinical writings
23. To be alone is the fate of all great minds- a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
24. A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone- Henry A. Kissinger (1923-) [White House Years]
25. There will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed , my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers- Plato (428-347 B.C.)
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