"If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government."

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Source : George Crook (1986). “General George Crook: His Autobiography”, p.229, University of Oklahoma Press

George Crook

#Government Quotes #Broken Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true .”

Source : "The Twilight of Civilization". Book by Jacques Maritain (p. 41), 1939.
“There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.”
“The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America.”
“We were always dead against the war.”
“Nobody Beats Us! served as our main trigger... We practiced using trigger words, private verbal keys, which unlocked certain thoughts for us. We had a half-dozen phrases-some dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with our stroke rating. The most powerful phrase was 'Nobody Beats Us!' According to our plan, when I said these words to Paul toward the end of the race, we would immediately shift into our final sprint, rowing as high and hard as possible, straight through, until we crossed the finish line.”
“There was no such thing as luck.Â Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity.Â More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.”
“One has to know more about a company if one buys earnings.”
“Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.”

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