Abe, Winston, Teddy, MLK, JFK etc, what quotes help make you tick?
2006-09-15 16:19:19 · 19 answers · asked by J J 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke
2006-09-15 16:36:14 · answer #1 · answered by dlobryan1 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."- Thomas Jefferson
"To condemn a class is, to say the least, to wrong the good with the bad. I do not like to hear a class or nationality condemned on account of a few sinners."- President Abraham Lincoln, in a subsequent meeting with Jewish leaders, after commanding Army General Henry Halleck to revoke Major General Ulysses S. Grant's orders to expulse Jews from Grant's war zone for alleged smuggling and cotton speculation, 1862.
"When I get a little money, I buy books. And if any is left, I buy food and clothes."- Desiderus Erasmus
2006-09-16 01:34:21 · answer #2 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gen. John Sedgewick: Union commander contained in the yankee Civil war, shot on the conflict of Spotsylvania court docket domicile in 1864 on a similar time as finding over a parapet on the enemy strains "They could no longer hit an elephant at this dist..."
2016-10-01 00:28:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man-not one man nor a group of men,
but in ALL men!
In you!
You, the people, have the power -the power to create machines.
The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power
to make this life free and beautiful -to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then - in the name of democracy -let us use that power -
let us all unite
The clouds are lifting! The sun is breaking through!
We are coming out of the darkness into the light!
We are coming into a new world - a kindlier world,
where men will rise above their greed, their hate and their brutality
The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow-into the light of hope.
Charlie Chaplin
2006-09-15 17:05:32 · answer #4 · answered by espo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi JJ,
There are so many,
but if I had to reduce to
one, it would be Winston Churchill's
'not by land,
not by sea,
not by air,
we shall never surrender'!
and you add that British accent to
it, with his special voice, and it
hits home!
On a lighter note,
I love Arnold Schwarzenegger's
'I'll be back'
It is so apropos for so many things/occasions
2006-09-15 18:22:43 · answer #5 · answered by vim 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either. We'll win this war, but we'll win it only by fighting and by showing the Germans that we've got more guts than they have; or ever will have. We're not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we're going to rip out their living God damned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun *********** by the bushel-*******-basket!
~ General Patton
2006-09-15 16:27:28 · answer #6 · answered by phantom_steel1988 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed, by so many, to so few." Winston Churchill
Ay me! for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.
shakespeare
2006-09-15 17:25:34 · answer #7 · answered by afterflakes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok not being American I don't know many of your presidential quotes but I have one from a book, How to win friends and influence people. "A man convinced against his will is of his own opinion still."
I love it I stand by it, I don't think I have ever heard a clearer truth.
2006-09-18 03:43:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy - Martin Luther King, Jr.
2006-09-15 17:06:12 · answer #9 · answered by TK 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
winston churchill,after the united states was attacked by japan.(we shall fight with great strengh in the air)
2006-09-15 16:24:26 · answer #10 · answered by I Bleed Black & Gold 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋