Quotes · Skopia

75 quotes

This will be a campaign unlike any other in history. A campaign characterized by shock, by surprise, by flexibility, by the employment of precise munitions on a scale never before seen, and by the application of overwhelming force.

Tommy Franks

2003

★ 0.9

TV program

I worry that patriotism run amok will trample the very values that the country seeks to defend.

Dan Rather

2002

★ 1.0

Interview

A good collaboration produces universal thinking.

Robert Rauschenberg

1987

★ 1.1

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

Robert Rauschenberg

1965

★ 1.8

Speech

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Ramsey Clark

1967

★ 1.8

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

The Cherokee nation...is a distinct community, occupying its own territory...which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves, or in conformity with treaties and with the acts of Congress.

John Marshall

Worcester v. Georgia · 1832

★ 1.9

Novel · Science fiction

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

William S. Burroughs

1959

★ 1.9

Many people apparently don't trust their reactions to art or to music unless there is a verbal explanation for it. In music the only thing that matters is whether you feel it or not.

Ornette Coleman

1960

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for one hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

This Nation--this generation--in this hour, has man's first chance to build the Great Society--a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1964

★ 1.9

Political debate

Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

Lloyd Bentsen

1988

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

We are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor of building and the rush of our day's pursuits, we are believers in justice and liberty and in our own union. We believe that every man must some day be free.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Second Inaugural Address of Lyndon Baines Johnson · 1965

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

Think of our world as it looks from the rocket that is heading toward Mars. It is like a child's globe, hanging in space, the continents stuck to its side like colored maps. We are all fellow passengers on a dot of earth. And each of us, in the span of time, has really only a moment among our companions. How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1965

★ 1.9

"We, the people." It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787 I was not included in that "We, the people." I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

Barbara Jordan

1974

★ 1.9

Interview · Magazine

Painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Robert Rauschenberg

The New Yorker · 2005

★ 1.9

Song · Rock music

Only the lonely (know the way I feel).

Roy Orbison

Only the Lonely · 1960

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963 Thanksgiving Day Speech · 1963

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

Our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world of justice.

George W. Bush

2000

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear and pass along. And even after nearly 225 years, we have a long way yet to travel.

George W. Bush

First Inaugural Address of George W. Bush · 2001

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

America, at its best, is a place where personal responsibility is valued and expected. Encouraging responsibility is not a search for scapegoats, it is a call to conscience. And though it requires sacrifice, it brings a deeper fulfillment. We find the fullness of life not only in options, but in commitments.

George W. Bush

First Inaugural Address of George W. Bush · 2001

★ 2.0

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