"I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would have gotten the hostages released. I thank God they were satisfied with the missiles and we didn't have to go to that extreme."

-- Oliver North

#Government Quotes #Thank God Quotes #Terrorist Quotes

“War makes its own morals.”

Source : Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.287, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release”
“The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.”

Source : Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872). “A Speech on the Great Social Problem of Labor & Capital Delivered at Cooper Institute, New York City ... May 8, 1871, Before the Labor Reform League”, p.32
“Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart.”
“Initially, when I was making the bagpipes and reed instruments, it was different from the other instruments. In terms of sound itself, it may not be different, but in performing with it, it was a necessity to build it if I was going to perform and make scores with it. By making the instruments, it helped me compose the way I want.”
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”

Source : An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 2 (1776)
“If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.”

Source : "Helen Vendler: Poetry Critic and Fan of Art History". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. November 17, 2012.
“People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice. As in folk music, each person has a unique role to play.”

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