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Henry Steele Commager

July 19, 2010 – 8:36 pm
Posted in Activists, America, Authors, Civil Rights Movement, Editors, Historians, Journalists
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“The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted”. –Henry Steele Commager

Henry Liddon

“The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance”. –Henry Liddon

John Bonham

“Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at”. –John Bonham

Bill Mauldin

“Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo”. –Bill Mauldin

King Henry VIII

“Alas, how can the poor souls live in concord when you preachers sow amongst them in your sermons debate and discord? They look to you for light and you bring them darkness”. –King Henry VIII

Max Beerbohm

“I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him”. –Max Beerbohm

Fiorello La Guardia

March 25, 2010 – 1:38 am
Posted in America, Leaders, Military, Politicians, WWI, WWII
Tagged Behind, Behind Me, Burn, Burn Bridges, Burn My Bridges, Burned, Burned Bridges, Burning, Burning Bridges, Burns, Difference, Differences, Fiorello, Fiorello Henry La Guardia, Fiorello La Guardia, Fiorello La Guardia Quote, Fiorello La Guardia Quotes, Fiorello LaGuardia, Fiorello LaGuardia Quote, Fiorello LaGuardia Quotes, Flower, Flowers, Henry, I Never Retreat, It Makes No Difference, It Makes No Difference If I Burn All My Bridges Behind Me, La Guardia, La Guardia Quote, La Guardia Quotes, LaGuardia, Little, Little Flower, Made, Make, Makes, Making, Me, Never, Never Retreat, No, No Difference, Quotes, Retreat, Retreated, Retreating, Retreats, The Little Flower
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“It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me — I never retreat”. –Fiorello LaGuardia

Henny Youngman

March 22, 2010 – 8:42 pm
Posted in Actors, British Empire, Comedians, Musicians, Performers
Tagged A Doctor, A Doctor Gave A Man Six Months To Live, Another, Another Six Months, Bill, Bills, Could Not, Couldn't, Couldn't Pay His Bill, Doctor, Doctors, Gave, Gave Him Another Six Months, Give, Henny, Henny Youngman, Henny Youngman Quote, Henny Youngman Quotes, Henry, Henry Youngman, Henry Youngman Quote, Henry Youngman Quotes, King of One-Liners, King of the One-Liner, Live, Lived, Lives, Living, Man, Men, Month, Months, Pay, Pay His Bill, Payed, Paying, Pays, Quote, Quotes, Six, Six Months, So He Gave Him Another Six Months, The Man Couldn't Pay His Bill, Youngman, Youngman Quote, Youngman Quotes
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“A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months”. –Henny Youngman

Peter Sellers

March 16, 2010 – 6:14 pm
Posted in Actors, British Empire, Comedians, Performers, WWII
Tagged Admit, Admit Defeat, Admits, Admitted, Admitting, Any, Comedian, Comedians, Comedy, Defeat, Defeated, Defeating, Face, Face Them, Faces, Form, Forms, Henry, Horrible, Label, Labels, Peter, Peter Sellers, Quote, Quotes, Real, Realities, Reality, Refuse, Refuse to Face Them, Refused, Refuses, Refusing, Richard, Richard Henry Sellers, Richard Sellers, Sellers, Some, Subject, Subjects, Them, Trap, Trapped, Unless, Unsuitable Unsuited
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“Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat”. –Peter Sellers

Groucho Marx

February 28, 2010 – 6:31 pm
Posted in Actors, America, Comedians, Musicians, Performers
Tagged Apply, Applying, Art, Diagnose, Diagnosing, Everywhere, Find, Finding, Groucho, Groucho Marx, Henry, Incorrect, Incorrectly, Julius, Julius Henry Marx, Look, Looking, Looking for Trouble, Marx, Politic, Politics, Quote, Quotes, Remedies, Trouble, Wrong, Wrong Remedies
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“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies”. –Groucho Marx

Henry Miller

February 28, 2010 – 12:08 am
Posted in America, Artists, Authors, Painters
Tagged Divine, Henry, Henry Miller, Human, In Other Words, Man, Miller, Not, Other, Other Words, Potential, Quote, Quotes, Sum, What, Words
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“What is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?” –Henry Miller

King Henry IV

February 25, 2010 – 1:50 pm
Posted in British Empire, Generals, Leaders, Military, Royalty
Tagged Arrive, Arriving, Bolingbroke, England, Henry, Henry Bolingbroke, Henry IV, Henry of Bolingbroke, IV, King, King Henry IV, King Henry IV of England, Knowledge, Lesson, Lessons, Mount, Nobody, Nobody's Word, of England, Principle, Principles, Quote, Quotes, Real, Real Knowledge, Shortest, Sure, Sure Way, Surest, Surest Way, Take Nobody's Word, Taught, Unlearn, Way
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“The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody’s word about them”. –King Henry IV

Henry David Thoreau

February 25, 2010 – 10:21 am
Posted in Activists, America, Authors, Historians, Philosophers, Poets, Scientists
Tagged David, Disobedience, Foundation, Henry, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Thoreau, Liberty, Must, Obedient, Quote, Quotes, Slaves, Thoreau, True
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“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves”. –Henry David Thoreau

Henri La Fontaine

February 19, 2010 – 4:37 pm
Posted in Belgium, Lawyers, Nobel Laureates
Tagged Before, Fontaine, Henri, Henri Fontaine, Henri La Fontain, Henri La Fontaine, Henry, Henry Fontain, Henry Fontaine, Henry La Fontaine, La Fontaine, Meadows, Peoples, Pleases, Quote, Quotes, Sent, Sheep, Shepherds, Slaughterhouses
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“Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds”. –Henri La Fontaine

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