Joseph N. Welch famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Senator; you've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
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Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness....Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?
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Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
-- Joseph N. Welch
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
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Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!†said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.
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As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.
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Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
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Good guys are most likely to finish last, but also most likely to finish first.
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I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?
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