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Quotations of the Day: July 2004
July 31, 2004
There is no such thing as a moderate in the civil-rights movement; everyone is a radical. The difference is whether or not one is all rhetoric or relevant. —Whitney Moore Young, Jr.
July 30, 2004
The rose is fairest when ’t is budding new, / And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. / The rose is sweetest wash’d with morning dew, / And love is loveliest when embalm’d in tears. —Sir Walter Scott
My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. —Jesse Jackson
July 27, 2004
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier—the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats…. The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges. —John F. Kennedy
July 26, 2004
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the nonintellectuals have never stirred. —Aldous Huxley
July 25, 2004
It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs. —Eric Hoffer
July 24, 2004
Would [a Congress where women in all their diversity were represented] consent to the perverted sense of priorities that has dominated our government for decades, where billions have been appropriated for war while our human needs as a people have been neglected? —Bella Abzug
July 23, 2004
Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. —Haile Selassie
July 22, 2004
Yes, God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it. —Ely Culbertson
July 21, 2004
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. —Ernest Hemingway
July 20, 2004
Conscience is the voice of values long and deeply infused into one’s sinew and blood. —Elliot L. Richardson
July 19, 2004
Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. —Blaise Pascal
July 18, 2004
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. —Nelson Mandela
July 17, 2004
The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called “significant literature” will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. —Raymond Chandler
July 16, 2004
If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. —Sir Joshua Reynolds
July 15, 2004
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, / And greatly falling with a falling state. / While Cato gives his little senate laws, / What bosom beats not in his country’s cause? —Alexander Pope
July 14, 2004
All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young. —Gerald R. Ford
July 13, 2004
Every man has two countries, his own and France. —Henri de Bornier
July 12, 2004
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. —R. Buckminster Fuller
July 11, 2004
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her [America’s] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. —John Quincy Adams
July 10, 2004
I must be cruel, only to be kind: / Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. —William Shakespeare
July 9, 2004
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman’s speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss. —Winston Churchill
July 8, 2004
I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom—not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest. —Ovid
July 7, 2004
They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday. —Robert Heinlein
The noblest mind the best contentment has. —Edmund Spenser
July 4, 2004
[The Declaration of Independence] meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere. —Abraham Lincoln
July 3, 2004
It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting. —Tom Stoppard
July 2, 2004
Above all we forget that we ourselves are a part of history, that we are the product of growth and are condemned to perish if we lose the capacity for further growth and change. —Hermann Hesse
July 1, 2004
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. —George Sand
