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Quotations of the Day: July 2005
July 31, 2005
So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not. —Milton Friedman
July 30, 2005
Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, / While the world’s tide is bearing me along; / Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, / Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong. —Emily Jane Brontë
July 29, 2005
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. —Alexis de Tocqueville
July 28, 2005
I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world. —Abraham Lincoln
July 27, 2005
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. —Hilaire Belloc
July 26, 2005
It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddie them on a screen. —Stanley Kubrick
July 25, 2005
Judges are apt to be naif, simple-minded men, and they need something of Mephistopheles. We too need education in the obvious—to learn to transcend our own convictions and to leave room for much that we hold dear to be done away with short of revolution by the orderly change of law. —Oliver Wendell Holmes
July 24, 2005
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty. —Simón Bolívar
July 23, 2005
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That’s the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. —William O. Douglas
July 22, 2005
Still on Israel’s head forlorn, / Every nation heaps its scorn. —Emma Lazarus
July 21, 2005
Scatter these well-meant idioms / Into the smoky spring that fills / The suburbs, where they will be lost. / They are no trophies of the sun. —Hart Crane
July 20, 2005
Great is my envy of death whose curt hard sword / Carried her whom I called my life away; / Me he disdains, and mocks me from her eyes! —Petrarch
July 19, 2005
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. —Herbert Marcuse
I’ve only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror. —Sid Vicious
July 16, 2005
The worst horror of the Russian Revolution was the letting loose of one hundred million orators, for their passion for talk was immediately responsible for all the other horrors … Oratory prevented Russia from becoming a constitutional country. Oratory tore the Revolution from the patriots and gave it into the bloody hands of the mob. Oratory murdered the Czar, his wife, and their innocent children. —Rheta Childe Dorr
July 15, 2005
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. —Walter Bagehot
July 14, 2005
This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me. —Woody Guthrie
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don’t slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices. —Pablo Neruda
July 11, 2005
To be active, well, happy, implies courage. To be ready to fight in a duel or a battle implies desperation, or that you hold your life cheap. —Henry David Thoreau
July 10, 2005
We must all, in order to make reality more tolerable, keep alive in us a few little follies. —Marcel Proust
July 9, 2005
To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing. —Dorothy Thompson
July 8, 2005
Although I’m trying very hard / To sound unlike a birthday card, / That’s all this is: so you may find it / Full of all that lies behind it / Admiration; friendship too; / And hope that in the future you / Reap ever richer revenue. —Philip Larkin
July 7, 2005
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. —David McCullough
July 6, 2005
No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass. —John Marshall
July 5, 2005
Surely tis by faith we are upheld thro such trials—justice will be meted in time to those who fill soft places and malign men who perform heroic duties. —Elizabeth Blair Lee
July 4, 2005
Yes, I am the nation, and these are the things that I am. I was conceived in freedom and, God willing, in freedom I will spend the rest of my days. —Otto Whittaker
July 3, 2005
When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away. —British proverb
July 2, 2005
My hope is that 10 years from now, after I’ve been across the street at work for a while, they’ll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote. —Sandra Day O’Connor
July 1, 2005
Americans can celebrate the Fourth of July and bring its spirit anywhere in the world…. But it is celebrated with more sentiment and fervor by Americans away from home in France than in any country, for Lafayette and Rochambeau equally with Washington made the Fourth of July possible. —Chauncey M. Depew
