"The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities."

-- William Jennings Bryan

#War Quotes #Government Quotes #Accountability Quotes

“Faults They came to tell your faults to me, They named them over one by one; I laughed aloud when they were done, I knew them all so well before,-- Oh, they were blind, too blind to see Your faults had made me love you more.”
“[The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for me, sooner or later I would have been out on the grade with my cameras.”
“Teenage girls, please donâ€™t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What Iâ€™ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, itâ€™s so wonderfully fair.”
“It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated.”
“You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!”
“So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not.”
“The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Don Rickles" By Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.”

Source : Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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