Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ["Treason!" cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
Patrick Henry (1736-1799) American revolutionary and orator
Speech on the Stamp Act, Virginia House of Burgesses (29 May 1765)
Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914) American historian, educator, writer
“A Case of Hypochondria,” Newsweek (6 Jul 1970)
Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into 4 chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) US President (1801-09)
Letter to John Norvell (14 Jun 1807)
Nineteen people flew into the towers. It seems hard for me to imagine that we could go to war enough to make the world safe enough that nineteen people wouldn’t want to do harm to us. So it seems like we have to rethink a strategy that is less military-based.
Jon Stewart (b. 1962) American satirist, comedian, and television host. [b. Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz]
Interview with Tony Blair, The Daily Show (18 Sep 2008)
Full video.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American writer
Preface to Gustav Regler, The Great Crusade (1940)
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