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| You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot |
| ~Ben Stein ~ |
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| My view was that every executive officer, and above all every executive officer in high position, was a steward of the people bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people, and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin. I declined to adopt the view that what was imperatively necessary for the Nation could not be done by the President unless he could find some specific authorization to do it. My belief was that it was not only his right but his duty to do anything that the needs of the Nation demanded unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution or by the laws. Under this interpretation of executive power I did and caused to be done many things not previously done by the President and the heads of the departments. I did not usurp power, but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power. In other words, I acted for the public welfare, I acted for the common well-being of all our people, whenever and in whatever manner was necessary, unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition. |
| ~ THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography (vol. 20 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 10, pp. 347–48 (1926). ~ |
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| I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. |
| ~Rita Rudner ~ |
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| She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 508. ~ |
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| Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 364. ~ |
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| I take such men to be inspired. I fancy that this moment Shakespeare in heaven ranks with Gabriel Raphael and Michael. And if another Messiah ever comes twill be in Shakespeare’s person. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, Feb. 24, 1849, to Evert A. Duyckinck. Correspondence, vol. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (1993). ~ |
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| Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it. Twenty- five years ago American fighting men looked to the statesmen of the world to finish the work of peace for which they fought and suffered; we failed them, we failed them then, we cannot fail them again and expect the world to survive again. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. FDR Speaks authorized edition of speeches, 1933-1945 (recordings of Franklin Roosevelt’s public addresses), side 12, address to Congress on Yalta Conference (March 1, 1945), ed. Henry Steele Commager, Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, Washington Records, Inc. (1960). The President appealed to the Congress and the American people to have faith in the planned United Nations organization and not make the same mistake which American leaders made in rejecting the League of Nations after World War I.... ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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