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#9901The public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.
-- Thomas Carlyle
#9902The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but
because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
-- Thomas Macaulay, "History of England"
#9903The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it
about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that
you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?
-- Dave Barry, "On Presidential Politics"
#9904The revolution will not be televised.
#9905"The Right Honorable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests
and to his imagination for his facts."
-- Sheridan
#9906The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.
-- Lewis Carroll
#9907The scum also rises.
-- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
#9908The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations
of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
-- Max Lerner
#9909The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering.
#9910The time was the 19th of May, 1780. The place was Hartford, Connecticut.
The day has gone down in New England history as a terrible foretaste of
Judgement Day. For at noon the skies turned from blue to grey and by
mid-afternoon had blackened over so densely that, in that religious age,
men fell on their knees and begged a final blessing before the end came.
The Connecticut House of Representatives was in session. And, as some of
the men fell down and others clamored for an immediate adjournment, the
Speaker of the House, one Col. Davenport, came to his feet. He silenced
them and said these words: "The day of judgment is either approaching or
it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I
choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be
brought."
-- Alistair Cooke
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