“A hero is a man who does what he can.”
Romain Rolland.
“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”
Romain Rolland.
“Desertion in time of war is a major, serious offense; failure to respond to the country’s call for duty is also a serious offense. Reconciliation among our people does not require that these acts be condoned. Yet, reconciliation calls for an act of mercy to bind the Nation’s wounds and to heal the scars of divisiveness.”
Remarks upon announcing a clemency program for Vietnam era draft evaders
Gerald Ford
September 16, 1974
@edgarblythe,
Quote:“Desertion in time of war is a major, serious offense; failure to respond to the country’s call for duty is also a serious offense.
Both are true, but Ford's facts are not.
“Desertion in time of an illegal invasion is the duty of honorable people ; failure to respond to the country’s call to commit war crimes is the path that any sane individual will take.
“They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.”
Humphrey Bogart
“We are the ones we have been waiting for.”
― June Jordan
Harlem-born poet, novelist, and essayist June Jordan was born today in 1936 (she died in 2002).
“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
@edgarblythe,
"The trouble with man is that he cannot sit quietly in his room"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I might have the wording wrong as I am going off my memory.
@spendius,
Goethe wrote his works in impeccable English.
@edgarblythe,
I never see Goethe that I don't think of Wandel.
“In time you shall see Fate approach you
In the shape of your own image in the mirror.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
“Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand,not the least thing,everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be forseen.”
― Nostradamus, El Talisman de Los Sueos
“You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.”
Arlo Guthrie
“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”
Thomas Jefferson
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
~ Albert Einstein
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
~ Albert Einstein
I still have my 1967 Goodwood-green Corvette, 327, 350-horse, with a rear-axle ratio that really gets up and goes. The Secret Service won't let me drive it. I'm not allowed to drive anything. It's the one thing I hate about this job. I'm serious.
JOE BIDEN, Car and Driver, Sep. 2011
“I never saw a wild thing
Sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence
Man: the glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
Alexander Pope
Fred Rose on Hank Williams:
"He was just like me -- came up the hard way. I've been on my own since I was seven. Grew up in a small country town, just like Hank. Used to pass the hat around in saloons for my keep. He was like that."
Fred Rose Lyric:
Love is like a dying ember
Where only memories remain
Through the ages I'll remember
Blue eyes crying in the rain
- "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"
@edgarblythe,
Wow! Stupid me...I thought Willy Nelson wrote that song.
@Ragman,
Many people are unaware of Fred Rose. He wrote some of country music's most popular songs when he was active.
