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Political speech22 quotes

States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. — George W. Bush · 2002 For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that's sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say farewell. Is a new world coming? We welcome it, and we will bend it to the hopes of man. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1965 In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. — George W. Bush · 2003 It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world. — George W. Bush · 2005 We have a place, all of us, in a long story—a story we continue, but whose end we will not see. It is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, the story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer. It is the American story—a story of flawed and fallible people, united across the generations by grand and enduring ideals. — George W. Bush · 2001 We will make no distinction between terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them. — George W. Bush · 2001 All 22 quotes →

Legal writing9 quotes

The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. — John Marshall · 1803 It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is... If two laws conflict with each other, the Courts must decide on the operation of each... This is of the very essence of judicial duty. — John Marshall · 1803 Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void. — John Marshall · 1803 In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions. — Alberto Gonzales · 2002 We must never forget that it is a Constitution we are expounding. — John Marshall · 1819 The power to tax involves the power to destroy. — John Marshall · 1819 All 9 quotes →

Comedy (stand up)2 quotes

How about a positive LSD story, that would be newsworthy, don’t you think? Anybody think that? Just once to hear a positive LSD story; “Today a young man on acid…realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves…Here’s Tom with the weather. — Bill Hicks · 1991 I was in the unenviable position of being for the war but against the troops. — Bill Hicks · 1991

Country music2 quotes

You got to know when to hold 'em, Know when to fold 'em, Know when to walk away, and know when to run. — Kenny Rogers · 1978 Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose. — Janis Joplin · 1971

Western2 quotes

It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away. — John Williams · 1960 You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you-that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. — John Williams · 1960

Western fiction2 quotes

It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away. — John Williams · 1960 You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you-that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. — John Williams · 1960

Documentary (film)1 quote

This is an impressive crowd. The haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite, I call you my base. — George W. Bush · 2004

Pop music1 quote

If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it. — Beyonce · 2008

Rock and roll1 quote

I fought the law, and the law won. — The Crickets · 1961

Rock music1 quote

Only the lonely (know the way I feel). — Roy Orbison · 1960

Science fiction1 quote

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror. — William S. Burroughs · 1959

Sociology1 quote

By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them. — C. Wright Mills · 1956