“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
― Frederick Douglass
@edgarblythe,
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
~ Winston Churchill
“If the truth is there, bad writing won't hurt it !”
Alfred Adler
"Mitt Romney is Gordon Gecko"----Jessee 'the Gov' Ventura
If you have only one of something you can't say it's the best of anything.
HAROLD PINTER, Old Times
@edgarblythe,
There's only one England and that's the best of countries.
@spendius,
But it cannot be the best of Englands, as there is just one.
@edgarblythe,
There are loads of best of Englands ed. There's loads of worst as well.
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,-
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
William Shakespeare
King Richard II.
@edgarblythe,
Not really. It's real enough as a rhetorical device to get the poor bloody infantry to "do and die" so that fats cats stay fat cats. "Land of the free" type shite.
PRIVATE CARR (Loosening his belt, shouts.) I'll wring the neck of any ******* bastard says a word against my bleeding ******* king.
"Has God forgotten all I have done for Him?"
Louis IV
I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic. And emotional.
RICHARD NIXON, conversation with John Mitchell, Slate, Oct. 11, 2001
@edgarblythe,
Quote:I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic. And emotional.
RICHARD NIXON, conversation with John Mitchell, Slate, Oct. 11, 2001
If this is true, one has to wonder what was in Dick's pants.
@edgarblythe,
Wouldn't that be the ultimate of horrors, Ed?
