"I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns."

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Source : John Davis Long (1956). “Journal”

John Davis Long

#War Quotes #Gun Quotes #Men Quotes

“Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.”
“People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.”
“It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.”
“According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent on food, clothing, housing, and transportation combined. Compare this to the plight of medieval serfs. They only had to give the lord of the manor one-third of their output - and they were considered slaves. So what does that make us?”
“I tell people I'm a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I'm somebody's husband, I'm somebody's father. I'm a man. I take great pride in that.”
“We chose it's name [Give the People What They Want] a while ago, long before the cancer. But I can't think of a more fitting title.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.”

Source : Henry Mintzberg (1980). “The Nature of Managerial Work”, Prentice Hall
“Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.”

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