Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Rice Burroughs

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

Barack Obama

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

William Odom

But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them.

Bayard Rustin

We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.

Barack Obama

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

Emmeline Pankhurst

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

Gary Bauer

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.

Arthur Capper

I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.

Kim Ens

This isn't something where we want to scare people at all.

Donna Jones

This is the dirtiest, scariest thing I've ever seen. When it comes to politics in this city, people don't play fair.

Ken Davis

This is Philadelphia, people are used to (politicians) getting indicted,

Jeanna Mastrodicasa

This is part of the risk of running, that people will say things about you.

Paul Costello

The whole idea that started this program was to get people out of harm's way.

Gary Caille

The whole idea is that the vehicle doesn't need to survive an attack, but the people do.

Hilary Clinton

The United States military, because of people like you, can do things for a troubled world that no one else can do. And I am profoundly grateful,

Curtis Hanson

This girl, I can't tell you how much ... well, just how proud I am of her. She is going to surprise so many people with this.

Harvey Houtkin

That's where all the people who are day trading, or supposedly day trading, are getting raped or killed,

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Allen Ginsberg

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

Allan Massie

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Allan Massie

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

Allan Lichtman

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.

Alistair Cooke

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges

Alistair Cooke

More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.

Alistair Cooke

Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.

Alison McGhee

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?