WIST Quotations

Rogers, Will -- Column (1931-01-07), “Daily Telegram: Will Rogers Says Hunger Needs No Encouragement”

Dave — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:10:52 +0000

The Senate passed a bill appropriating 15 million for food, but the House of Representatives (up to today) had not approved it. They said no.
They seem to think that’s a bad precedent, to appropriate money for food — it’s too much like the “dole.” They must think it would encourage hunger.
The way things look, hunger doesn’t need much encouragement. It’s just coming around naturally.

Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Column (1931-01-07), “Daily Telegram: Will Rogers Says Hunger Needs No Encouragement”
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Johnson, Lyndon -- Comment (1960)

Dave — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:23:46 +0000

No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) American politician, educator, US President (1963-69)
Comment (1960)
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Comment regarding wealthy campaign donors, made to friends and reporters while flying back from a campaign event in Binghamton, New York. Quoted in David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest, ch. 20 (1972)

Truman, Harry S -- Speech, Butte, Montana (1950-05-12)

Dave — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:28:31 +0000

All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about “creeping socialism.” I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with — and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism, not the kind they define.

Harry S Truman (1884-1972) US President (1945-1953)
Speech, Butte, Montana (1950-05-12)
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