"What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins."

-- Clara Barton

#Country Quotes #Father Quotes #War Quotes

“There are rumours of fractions within the Palace dressing room.”
“Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.”
“Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.”
“I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.”
“I am afraid that I do not believe that any body of men can have enough knowledge of the past, the present and the future to establish "development priorities" which presumably means procuring some developments as being good and prohibiting others as being bad.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 212), March 27, 1968.
“Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.”
“From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.”
“[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political society. And voluntarily, through the private interaction of individuals and associations - what we can call civil society. ... In a civil society, you make the decision. In a political society, someone else does. ... Civil society is based on reason, eloquence, and persuasion, which is to say voluntarism. Political society, on the other hand, is based on force.”

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