11 quotes found
“Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?”
“The state is a voluntary association of individuals designed to serve their individual interests. The state is not a faceless villain. The state is all of us. But freedom does not mean the freedom ...”
“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or musi”
“Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson.""Lake and Palmer?""Ralph and Waldo.”
“The people had once created the city. The city now created the people, or, more exactly, the people of Venice now identified themselves more in terms of the city. The private had become public.”
“Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.”
“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
“The generation of American men who fought the Second World War were too struck by the scale of the effort and the stakes of the effort to see the war as a stage for their own personal heroism. Mo...”
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.”
“Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, "I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.”
