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Quotations of the Day: February 2006
February 28, 2006
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar. —Mathew Henry
February 27, 2006
Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power. —Hugo L. Black
February 26, 2006
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people’s safety and greatness. —Grover Cleveland
February 25, 2006
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art…. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. —John Foster Dulles
February 24, 2006
It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion. —George Bernard Shaw
February 23, 2006
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs. —Richard M. Nixon
February 22, 2006
Be noble! and the nobleness that lies / In other men, sleeping but never dead, / Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. —James Russell Lowell
February 21, 2006
It is thy very energy of thought / Which keeps thee from thy God. —John Henry Newman
February 20, 2006
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. —Frederick Douglass
February 19, 2006
Earth that bore with joyful ease / Hemlock for Socrates, / Earth that blossomed and was glad / ’Neath the cross that Christ had, / Shall rejoice and blossom too / When the bullet reaches you. —Charles H. Sorley
February 18, 2006
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong. —Wendell Willkie
February 17, 2006
In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are half concealed, but from whose chimneys the smoke cheerfully ascends. —Henry David Thoreau
February 16, 2006
I believe if we introduced the Lord’s Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it. —Henry Wilson
February 15, 2006
Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up. —Walter Benjamin
Your organization is not a praying institution. It’s a fighting institution. It’s an educational institution right along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living! —Mother Jones
February 12, 2006
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. —Abraham Lincoln
February 11, 2006
Full fathom five thy father lies; / Of his bones are coral made; / Those are pearls that were his eyes: / Nothing of him that doth fade / But doth suffer a sea-change / Into something rich and strange. —William Shakespeare
February 10, 2006
For thy sake, tobacco, I / Would do anything but die. —Charles Lamb
February 9, 2006
For the man who should loose me is dead, / Fighting with the Duke in Flanders, / In a pattern called a war. / Christ! What are patterns for? —Amy Lowell
February 8, 2006
What you fail to understand is the power of hate. It can fill the heart as surely as love can. —Earl Felton
February 7, 2006
The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced. —Frederick Douglass
February 6, 2006
The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. —William M. Evarts
February 5, 2006
We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. —Adlai E. Stevenson
February 4, 2006
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. —Charles A. Lindbergh
February 3, 2006
The masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them. —Horace Greeley
February 2, 2006
They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing. —Talleyrand
February 1, 2006
The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons. —Frank S. Nugent
