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| It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. |
| ~ Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), U.S. Republican (later Progressive) politician, president. Speech, August 23, 1902, Providence, Rhode Island. ~ |
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| Society waits unformed and is between things ended and things begun. |
| ~ Walt Whitman, Thoughts. 1. ~ |
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| No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win. |
| ~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, 1: 84, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1930). Taft’s reply to Butt’s asking, while horseback riding, if he objected to a rain shower. ~ |
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| Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. If in order to elude the anxious question: "What would life be?" one must, like the donkey, feed on the roses of illusion, then the absurd mind, rather than resigning itself to falsehood, prefers to adopt fearlessly Kierkegaard's reply: "despair." Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage. |
| ~ The Myth of Sisyphus, An Absurd Reasoning, Philosophical Suicide, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) ~ |
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| Speak softly and carry a big stick. |
| ~ Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), U.S. Republican (later Progressive) politician, president. Speech, April 2, 1903, Chicago. The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, vol. 13. A favorite adage, referring to military preparation and the Monroe Doctrine. ~ |
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| Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term “unconditional surrender.” ... The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech—in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. letter, Jan. 17, 1944, to Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The Roosevelt Letters, vol. 3, p. 492, ed. Elliott Roosevelt, George G. Harrup & Co., Ltd. (1952). Roosevelt had announced the “Unconditional Surrender” doctrine at Casablanca and it was criticized by the Soviets. Stalin believed the Germans would use it to stiffen resistance and he was correct. FDR then felt the need to assert that it was not aimed at the German people but at their leaders and their philosophy of conquest. ~ |
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| It is those deep far-away things in him; those occasional flashings-forth of the intuitive Truth in him; those short, quick probings at the very axis of reality;--these are the things that make Shakespeare, Shakespeare. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Hawthorne and His Mosses” (1850), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). ~ |
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