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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.

1800s

 * What a pity that he who steals a penny loaf should be hung, whilst he who steals thousands of the public money should be acquitted!
 * 1806 journal entry on the acquittal of Lord Melville for misappropriation of public funds, as quoted in Stuart J. Reid, Lord John Russell (1895), p.9

1810s

 * It is very odd that in England, where we execute so many, we do not prevent crimes.
 * A comment Lord John Russell made to Napoleon, December 1814 as quoted in Lady John Russell: A Memoir (1910), edited by Desmond McCarthy and Agatha Russell. p. 54

1820s

 * Government will always be conducted for the benefit of those who govern. If the few alone govern, the interests of the few only will be provided for; if the people themselves have a share in the government, the interests of the many will be consulted.
 * Essays and Sketches of Life and Character (1820), p. 136

 * I am in my politics for reform and nothing but reform.
 * Letter to Lady Holland, January 1822

 * The natural balance of the constitution is this—that the Crown should appoint its ministers, that those ministers should have the confidence of the House of Commons, and that the House of Commons should represent the sense and wishes of the people. Such was the machinery of our government; and if any wheel of it went wrong, it deranged the whole system. Thus, when the Stuarts were on the throne, and their ministers did not enjoy the confidence of the House of Commons, the consequence was tumult, insurrection, and civil war throughout the country. At the present period, the ministers of the Crown possess the confidence of the House of Commons, but the House of Commons does not possess the esteem and reverence of the people. The consequences to the country are equally fatal. We have seen discontent breaking into outrage in various quarters—we have seen every excess of popular frenzy committed and defended—we have seen alarm universally prevailing among the upper classes, and disaffection among the lower—we have seen the ministers of the Crown seek a remedy for these evils in a system of severe coercion—in restrictive laws—in large standing armies—in enormous barracks, and in every other resource that belongs to a government which is not founded on the hearts of its subjects.
 * Speech to the House of Commons on Parliamentary reform, 25 April 1822

 * It is my persuasion, that the liberties of Englishmen, being founded upon the general consent of all, must remain upon that basis, or must altogether cease to have any existence. We cannot confine liberty in this country to one class of men: we cannot erect here a senate of Venice, by which a small part of the community is enabled to lord it over the majority; we cannot in this land, and at this time make liberty the inheritance of a caste. It is the nature of English liberty, that her nightingale notes should never be heard from within the bars and gratings of a cage; to preserve any thing of the grace and the sweetness, they must have something of the wildness of freedom. I speak according to the spirit of our constitution when I say, that the liberty of England abhors the unnatural protection of a standing army; she abjures the countenance of fortresses and barracks; nor can those institutions ever be maintained by force and terror that were founded upon mildness and affection. If we ask the causes, why a system of government, so contrary to the spirit of our laws, so obnoxious to the feelings of our people, so ominous to the future prospects of the country, has been adopted, we shall find the root of the evil to lie in the defective state of our representation. The votes of the House of Commons no longer imply the general assent of the realm; they no longer carry with them the sympathies and understandings of the nation. The ministers of the Crown, after obtaining triumphant majorities in this House, are obliged to have recourse to other means than those of persuasion, reverence for authority, and voluntary respect, to procure the adherence of the country. They are obliged to enforce, by arms, obedience to acts of this House—which, according to every just theory, are supposed to emanate from the people themselves.
 * Speech to the House of Commons on Parliamentary reform, 25 April 1822

 * May you remember, that the liberty which was acquired for you by your ancestors will be required of you by your descendants: then will you agree to a temperate and timely reform, reconcile the different classes of society, and prevent a convulsion which may involve all in one common ruin.
 * Speech to the House of Commons on Parliamentary reform, 25 April 1822

 * Who the devil will coalesce with people that don't coalesce with themselves.
 * Reply to a suggestion by Thomas Moore that George Canning might join with the Whigs to pass Catholic emancipation, quoted in Paul Scherer, Lord John Russell: A Biography (1999), p. 24

1830s

 * [A proverb is] one man's wit, and all men's wisdom.
 * Variant: [A proverb is] the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
 * Remark to James Mackintosh on October 6, 1830, reported in his posthumous memoir, Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh, Vol. 2 (1836), p. 472

 * Allow me to imagine, for a moment, a stranger from some distant country, who should arrive in England to examine our institutions.... He would have made himself acquainted with its fame in history, and above all, he would have been told, that the proudest boast of this celebrated country was its political freedom.... What then would be his surprise, if he were taken by his guide, whom he had asked to conduct him to one of the places of election, to a green mound and told, that this green mound sent two Members to Parliament—or, to be taken to a stone wall, with three niches in it, and told that these three niches sent two Members to Parliament—or, if he were shown a green park, with many signs of flourishing vegetable life, but none of human habitation, and told that this green park sent two Members to Parliament? But his surprise would increase to astonishment if he were carried into the North of England, where he would see large flourishing towns, full of trade and activity, containing vast magazines of wealth and manufactures, and were told that these places had no Representatives in the Assembly which was said to represent the people.
 * Speech to the House of Commons introducing the first reform bill, 1 March 1831

 * Our opponents say, our ancestors gave Old Sarum Representatives, therefore we should give Old Sarum Representatives.—We say, our ancestors gave Old Sarum Representatives, because it was a large town; therefore we give Representatives to Manchester, which is a large town. I think we are acting more as our ancestors would have acted, by letting in Representatives for our great commercial and manufacturing towns, than by excluding such Representatives.
 * Speech to the House of Commons introducing the first reform bill, 1 March 1831

 * Wherever the aristocracy reside, receiving large incomes, performing important duties, relieving the poor by charity, and evincing private worth and public virtue, it is not in human nature that they should not possess a great influence upon public opinion, and have an equal weight in electing persons to serve their country in Parliament. Though such persons may not have the direct nomination of members under this Bill, I contend that they will have as much influence as they ought to have. But if by aristocracy those persons are meant who do not live among the people, who know nothing of the people, and who care nothing for them—who seek honours without merit, places without duty, and pensions without service—for such an aristocracy I have no sympathy; and I think, the sooner its influence is carried away with the corruption on which it has thriven, the better for the country, in which it has repressed so long every wholesome and invigorating influence.
 * Speech to the House of Commons introducing the first reform bill, 1 March 1831

 * Will this House say, "We will keep our power, keep it how we may; we regard not the petitions of the people, and are ready to abide by all the consequences of our refusal"?
 * Speech to the House of Commons introducing the first reform bill, 1 March 1831

 * To establish the Constitution on a firm basis, you must show that you are determined not to be the representatives of a small class, or of a particular interest; but to form a body, who, representing the people, springing from the people, and sympathising with the people, can fairly call on the people to support the future burdens of the country, and to struggle with the future difficulties which it may have to encounter.
 * Speech to the House of Commons introducing the first reform bill, 1 March 1831

 * Our prospects are obscured for a moment, but, I trust, only for a moment; it is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.
 * Letter to Thomas Attwood, October 1831, after the rejection in the House of Lords of the Reform Bill, 7 October 1831

 * I wish I knew what to do to help your country. But, as I do not, it is of no use giving her smooth words, as O’Connell told me, and I must be silent.
 * Letter to Thomas Moore, December 1832, quoted in Spencer Walpole, The Life of Lord John Russell. Vol. 1 (1889), p. 180

1840s

 * I confess, that on the general subject my views have in the course of twenty years undergone a great alteration. I used to be of opinion that corn was an exception to the general rules of political economy: but observation and experience have convinced me that we ought to abstain from all interference with the supply of food. Neither a government nor a legislature can ever regulate the corn market with the beneficial effects which the entire freedom of sale and purchase are sure of themselves to produce.
 * Address to the electors of the City of London in support of Corn Law repeal, 22 November 1845

 * Let us, then, unite to put an end to a system which has been proved to be the blight of commerce, the bane of agriculture, the source of bitter divisions among classes, the cause of penury, fever, mortality, and crime among the people. But if this end is to be achieved, it must be gained by the unequivocal expression of the public voice....The Government appear to be waiting for some excuse to give up the present Corn Law. Let the people, by petition, by address, by remonstrance, afford them the excuse they seek.
 * Address to the electors of the City of London in support of Corn Law repeal, 22 November 1845

 * Party has no doubt its evils; but all the evils of party put together would be scarcely a grain in the balance, when compared to the dissolution of honourable friendships, the pursuit of selfish ends, the want of concert in council, the absence of a settled policy in foreign affairs, the corruption of separate statesmen, the caprices of an intriguing Court, which the extinction of party connection has brought and would again bring upon this country.
 * From the introduction to Correspondence of John, Fourth Duke of Bedford, Vol. 3 (1847), p. lxii

 * [I]t may be easily imagined that when those who are best off, in the most prosperous years, earn scarcely sufficient, those who had then been on the brink of famine, must have been unable to resist the flood of destitution and wretchedness which has over-whelmed them by the failure of the potato crop. Such has been unfortunately the case in the present year, during the visitation of a calamity which is, perhaps, almost without a parallel, because it acts upon a very large population, a population of nearly 8,000,000—for the Irish have gradually increased to that amount—while the famine is such as has not been known in modern times; indeed, I should say it is like a famine of the thirteenth century acting upon the population of the nineteenth.
 * Speech in the House of Commons on the Irish famine, 25 January 1847

 * Sir, it has always been my view that you never could effectually raise education in this country till you raised the condition and prospects of the schoolmaster; that view I have often expressed in this House. Whether I have been in or out of office, I have always thought that the drudgery of teaching without a sufficient reward, and with no prospect of future advantage, was such that men of talents and abilities, even although trained to it, could not but leave such a pursuit in great numbers for other and more profitable occupations; and this is not only my view, but one which I have found confirmed by all who are practically connected with the working of education. I have heard complaints without number that, after the training had been carried to a certain extent, and the schoolmasters established, the best of them, seeing what were the rewards offered in this country to persons of intelligence and well instructed, soon found other occupations far more valuable than that of teaching. This, Sir, I consider to be a great misfortune. No profession, in my opinion, is more important than that of training the youth of the working classes of this country.
 * Speech in the House of Commons on pensions for school teachers, 19 April 1847

 * It is quite true that landlords in England would not bear to be shot like hares or partridges by miscreants banded for murderous purposes. But neither does any landlord in England turn out fifty persons at once, and burn their homes over their heads, giving them no provision for the future. The murders are atrocious, but so are the ejectments. The truth is that a civil war between landlords and tenants [in Ireland] has been raging for 80 years, marked by barbarity on both sides. I am willing to finish the contest.... But if stringent laws are required, they must bear on both sides in the contest.
 * Letter to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl of Clarendon, 10 November 1847

 * [E]ight millions were advanced to enable the Irish to supply the loss of the potato crop and to cast about for some less precarious food.... The result has been that they have placed more dependence on the potato than ever, and have again been deceived. How can such a people be assisted? No one in their senses would think of repeating the outlay to lead to a similar improvidence.
 * Letter to the Earl of Clarendon, 23 September 1848

 * [T]he great difficulty of this year respecting Ireland is one which does not spring from Trevelyan or C. Wood but lies deep in the breast of the British people. It is this. We have granted, lent, subscribed, worked, visited, clothed the Irish,—millions of money, years of debates etc etc—the only return is calumny and rebellion. Let us not grant, lend, clothe etc etc anymore, and see what that will do. Such is the result which MacHale, J. O'Connell, and Smith O'Brien have brought us. Now without borrowing or lending we could have no great plan for Ireland and, much as I wished it, I have to see that it is impractical.
 * Letter to the Earl of Clarendon, 24 February 1849

1850s

 * The grand rule of doing to others as we wish that they should do unto us is more applicable than any system of political science. The honour of England does not consist in defending every English officer or English subject, right or wrong, but in taking care that she does not infringe the rules of justice, and that they are not infringed against her.
 * Letter to Queen Victoria, 29 December 1851 as quoted in Lady John Russell: A Memoir (1910), edited by Desmond McCarthy and Agatha Russell. p. 119

 * I think it never can be assumed that a country in the position in which this country is can be secure from the danger of war. In the first place, we may have some aggression upon some of our possessions, or even upon our own country. In the next place, it is possible that we may have some dispute with respect to the rights of our subjects, or injury supposed to be inflicted upon them by subjects of other countries. In the third place, we are bound by treaty with respect to several of the countries of Europe to defend them, if attacked.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (16 February 1852)

 * [W]e are connected, and have been for more than a century, with the general system of Europe; and any territorial increase of one Power, any aggrandisement which disturbs the general balance of power in Europe, although it might not immediately lead to war, could not be matter of indifference to this country, and would, no doubt, be the subject of conference, and might ultimately, if that balance were seriously threatened, lead to hostilities. These are reasons, Sir, why we cannot believe ourselves altogether safe from the danger of war.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (16 February 1852)

 * If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.
 * Greenock, 19 September 1853

 * We have heard much of late—a great deal too much, I think—of the prestige of England. We used to hear of the character, of the reputation, of the honour of England. I trust, Sir, that the character, the reputation, and the honour of this country are dear to us all; but, if the prestige of England is to be separate from those qualities, if it is to be separate from the character, from the reputation, and from the honour of our country, then I, for one, have no wish to maintain it.
 * Speech in the House of Commons condemning British hostilities against China in the Second Opium War, 26 February 1857

 * To those who argue, as I have heard some argue—"It is true we have a bad case; it is true we were in the wrong, it is true we have committed injustice, but we must persevere in that wrong; we must continue to act unjustly, or the Chinese will think that we are afraid," I say, as has been said before, "Be just and fear not." Whatever we lose in prestige, of which I do not presume to be a judge, I am convinced that the character and the honour of this country will be raised higher by such a policy. Never will England stand higher in the world's estimation than when it can be said that, though troublesome and meddlesome officials prostitute her arms and induce a brave Admiral to commence hostilities which never ought to have been begun, yet the House of Commons, representing her people, have indignantly declared that they will be no parties to such injustice; and that neither for commercial advantages, nor for political advantages, nor for any other immediate advantages to their country, will they consent to stain that honour which, after all, has been and must be the sure foundation of her greatness.
 * Speech in the House of Commons condemning British hostilities against China in the Second Opium War, 26 February 1857

 * In 1780, in 1783, and in 1829, that which had been denied to reason was granted to force. Ireland triumphed, not because the justice of her claims was apparent, but because the threat of insurrection overcame prejudice, made fear superior to bigotry, and concession triumphant over persecution.
 * The life and times of Charles James Fox, Vol. 1 (1859), p. 242

1860s

 * Her Majesty's Government can see no sufficient ground for the severe censure with which Austria, France, Prussia, and Russia have visited the acts of the King of Sardinia. Her Majesty's Government will turn their eyes rather to the gratifying prospect of a people building up the edifice of their liberties, and consolidating the work of their independence, amid the sympathies and good wishes of Europe.
 * Dispatch as Foreign Secretary to Sir James Hudson, 27 October 1860, by which the British government effectively recognised Italian Unification

 * For my own part, and speaking according to my limited vision, I do not believe those efforts of the Federals will be successful. No man can say that the North will subdue the South; but no man can say that the war is finally over, or that the independence of the Southern States is established....in this state of affairs I should say, that looking to the question of right, it would not be a friendly act towards the United States, it would not be to fulfil our obligations to a country with which we have long maintained relations of peace and amity—a great country which says it can still carry on the war—it would, I say, be a failure of friendship on our part if at this moment we were to interpose and recognise the Southern States.
 * Speech in the House of Lords in response to calls for the United Kingdom to recognise the the Confederate States of America, 23 March 1863

 * I rejoice heartily at the prospect of the negro vote.
 * Letter to British Ambassador to the United States Sir Frederick Bruce, 17 June 1863, quote in Paul Scherer, Lord John Russell, A Biography (1999), p287

 * President Lincoln was a man who, though not conspicuous before his election, had since displayed a character of so much integrity, so much sincerity and straightforwardness, and at the same time of so much kindness, that if any one could have been able to alleviate the pain and animosities which prevailed during the period of civil war, I believe that President Lincoln was that person. It was remarked of President Lincoln that he always felt disinclined to adopt harsh measures; and I am told that the commanders of his armies often complained that when they had passed a sentence which they thought no more than just the President was always disposed to temper its severity. Such a man this particular epoch required.
 * Speech in the House of Lords after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, 1 May 1865

 * [H]is heart always beat for the honour of England.
 * Speaking of Viscount Palmerston at the Guildhall, London, 9 November 1865, as reported in The Times, 10 November 1865, p. 7

 * Mr. Delane is very angry because I did not kiss his hand instead of the Queen's.
 * Comment on his refusal to court the editor of The Times upon his becoming Prime Minister for the second time, quoted in George W. E. Russell, Prime Ministers and Some Others, 1918, p. 24

 * Many years ago the Political Economy Club of London came, as I was told, to a resolution that the emigration of two millions of the population of Ireland would be the best cure for her social evils. Famine and emigration have accomplished a task beyond the reach of legislation or government; and Providence has justly afflicted us by the spectacle of the results of the entire dependence on potato cultivation, and by the old fires of disaffection which had been lighted in the hearts of Irishmen, and are now burning with such fierceness on the banks of the Hudson and the Potomac. The census of 1834 gave the population of Ireland as 7,954,760; that of 1861, as 5,798,957. Thus two millions have been removed by the great famine of 1847-8 and the drain of emigration of the last twenty years.
 * A letter to the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P. on the state of Ireland (1868), p. 12

 * When Lord Grey came into office, and the Whigs, after sixty years of exclusion, began a new scheme of Irish policy, there were two prominent evils in the government of Ireland. The first was the corrupt and intolerant system of administration called Protestant Ascendancy; the second, the Irish Church Establishment. The first of these evils—called by Burke, Non regnum sed magnum latrocinium [not a kingdom but a grand theft]; and by Fox, a miserable monopolising minority—was quite as great a grievance to the people of Ireland as the second. It drove into rebellion such men as Lord Edward Fitzgerald, the Emmets, and Wolfe Tone. By a series of what were called by Irish statesmen 'ripening measures,' the disaffected classes were irritated, goaded, spurred into insurrection; and when they had rebelled, were tortured, massacred, and shot, till the spirit of disloyalty, if not extirpated, was terrified and subdued. Hence a state of government, which was described by Lord Redesdale as one law for the rich and another for the poor, and both equally ill administered.
 * A letter to the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P. on the state of Ireland (1868), p. 41

 * The matter to be lamented was, that, by the unwise and narrow policy of the volunteers, the legislative independence of Ireland was confined to Protestants only; that, in the whole course of imperial policy, government by corruption was substituted for government by force; that at the Union the large and wise plans of Mr. Pitt were rejected, and the miserable monopolising minority had complete sway, dominion, and office, with the short interval of 1806, till 1830. To overthrow this vicious scheme of administration was the first duty of a liberal Government.
 * A letter to the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P. on the state of Ireland (1868), p. 45

 * The Roman Catholic Church has withstood in Europe and in Ireland the fiercest storms. In France it has survived Voltaire and Lepaux, the French Revolution and the Goddess of Reason; in England, Queen Elizabeth, William the Third, and the Penal Laws. In Ireland it still confronts us with four times as many adherents as all the Protestant churches. If we look to the fate of sovereigns, we find that James the Second forfeited the crown of England, and that Charles the Tenth sacrificed the crown of France, rather from devotion to the Church of Rome than from the failure of their political ambition.
 * A letter to the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P. on the state of Ireland (1868), p. 69

1870s

 * The case appears to me to be one between the honour of the Crown of this country and the election of General Grant as President of the United States. For my part, I prefer the honour of Her Majesty—I prefer the honour and reputation of this country—to any prospects of the re-election of General Grant.
 * Speech in the House of Lords on the Alabama Claims (13 May 1872)

 * Belonging to the Whig party, the aim of that party has always been my aim — 'The cause of civil and religious liberty all over the world.' I have endeavoured, in the words of Lord Grey, to promote that cause without endangering the prerogatives of the Crown, the privileges of the two Houses of Parliament, or the rights and liberties of the people. According to my view, the Tory party cared little for the cause of civil and religious liberty, and the Radical party were not solicitous to preserve those parts of the Constitution which did not suit their speculative and theoretical opinions. To hold a middle way, to observe the precept of Dædalus and to avoid the fate of Icarus, is at all times difficult and in certain junctures perilous.
 * Recollections and Suggestions 1813-1873 (1875), p. 213

 * For three hundred years the Protestant Established Church of Ireland has been the most odious and offensive emblem of the corruption and the intolerance of England. To have quietly removed this monopoly so offensive to the Irish nation, the target against which the arrows of Ireland's best archers were always aimed, without any of the rabbling which marked the expulsion of the English liturgy from Scotland, without disorder, without riot, is a great feat in the history of any statesman. No man can complain that he has been wronged, a nation may rejoice that she has been righted.
 * On Gladstone's Irish Church Act, Recollections and Suggestions 1813-1873 (1875), p. 415

 * I have seemed cold to my friends, but it was not in my heart.
 * Comment during final illness, as recalled by his nephew George W. E. Russell in Prime Ministers and Some Others, 1918, p. 24

Undated

 * If you cannot afford to do justice speedily and well, you may as well shut up the Exchequer and confess that you have no right to raise taxes for the protection of the subject, for justice is the first and primary end of all government.
 * Quoted in George W. E. Russell in Prime Ministers and Some Others, 1918, p. 23

 * What courage! There is not a man on the Tory benches around him but doesn't disapprove of every word he says.
 * On a speech by Benjamin Disraeli in support of Jewish rights, quoted in J. H. Morgan, John Viscount Morley An Appreciation and Some Reminiscences, 1924, p. 88

Quotes about Russell

 * His life spanned the change from aristocratic to middle class England, from the England of broad acres to the England of factory chimneys. Russell was the man of the transition, the link between the old order and the new, belonging to the old order by birth, carried over to the new order by his ideas. He was the last great Whig; he became the first Liberal. Russell, more than any other single man created the Victorian compromise; he made the England we know, or knew rather, the England that is vanishing before our eyes.
 * A. J. P. Taylor, 'Lord John Russell', The Listener (20 March 1947), reprinted in Essays in English History (1971), pp. 67-68

 * Russell was a tender-hearted man and was made wretched by the thought of all the suffering of the Irish, but he set his face against any measure of relief which would interfere with the workings of natural economic law.
 * A. J. P. Taylor, 'Lord John Russell', The Listener (20 March 1947), reprinted in Essays in English History (1971), p. 72

 * Lord John Russell—I believe you may take my word for it—has probably, from association, from tradition, from his own reading and study, and from his own just and honest sympathies, a more friendly feeling towards this question of Parliamentary Reform than any other man of his order as a statesman.
 * John Bright, speech in Birmingham (27 October 1858), quoted in Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by John Bright, M.P., Vol. II, ed. J. E. Thorold Rogers (1869), pp. 14–15

 * Lord Russell had no fear of freedom. He could much more easily be persuaded to give up, and he would much more willingly abandon for ever the name of Russell than he would give up his hereditary love of freedom. The Government, which was led by Earl Russell in one House and by Mr. Gladstone in the other, was founded and acted upon the principle of trust and confidence in the people.
 * John Bright, speech in Birmingham (27 August 1866), quoted in Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by John Bright, M.P., Vol. II, ed. J. E. Thorold Rogers (1869), p. 193

 * My confidence in England rests partly on the honourable character of the statesmen to whose hands the reins of power are committed—on Lord John Russell and on Lord Palmerston. Lord John Russell, I will say it openly, at the risk of being considered more and more an Anglo-maniac, is the most liberal Minister in Europe.
 * Cavour, quoted in Lord Acton, ‘Cavour’, The Rambler (July 1861), quoted in Lord Acton, Historical Essays and Studies, eds. Reginald Vere Laurence and John Neville Figgis (1907), p. 178

 * Busied with the tattle of valets and waiting-maids, you accidentally omitted in your Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe all notice of its most vast and most rising empire. This luckless production closed your literary career; you flung down your futile pen in incapable despair; and, your feeble intellect having failed in literature, your strong ambition took refuge in politics.
 * Benjamin Disraeli, 'Letter VII. to Lord John Russell' (30 January 1836), The Letters of Runnymede (1836), p. 56

 * Your aim is to reduce every thing to your own mean level—to degrade every thing to your malignant standard. ... In all your conduct it is not difficult to detect the workings of a mean and long mortified spirit suddenly invested with power,—the struggles of a strong ambition attempting, by a wanton exercise of authority, to revenge the disgrace of a feeble intellect.
 * Benjamin Disraeli, 'Letter VII. to Lord John Russell' (30 January 1836), The Letters of Runnymede (1836), pp. 60-61

 * But, my Lord, how thunderstruck must be our visitor when he is told to recognise a Secretary of State in an infinitely small scarabæus;—yes, my Lord, when he learns, that you are the leader of the English House of Commons, our traveller may begin to comprehend how the Egyptians worshipped— AN INSECT.
 * Benjamin Disraeli, 'Letter VII. to Lord John Russell' (30 January 1836), The Letters of Runnymede (1836), p. 64

 * Lord John Russell has that degree of imagination, which, though evinced rather in sentiment than expression, still enables him to generalise from the details of his reading and experience; and to take those comprehensive views, which, however easily depreciated by ordinary men in an age of routine, are indispensable to a statesman in the conjunctures in which we live. He understands, therefore, his position; and he has the moral intrepidity which prompts him ever to dare that which his intellect assures him is politic. He is consequently, at the same time, sagacious and bold in council. As an administrator he is prompt and indefatigable. He is not a natural orator, and labours under physical deficiencies which even a Demosthenic impulse could scarcely overcome. But he is experienced in debate, quick in reply, fertile in resource, takes large views, and frequently compensates for a dry and hesitating manner by the expression of those noble truths that flash across the fancy, and rise spontaneously to the lip, of men of poetic temperament when addressing popular assemblies. If we add to this, a private life of dignified repute, the accidents of his birth and rank, which never can be severed from the man, the scion of a great historic family, and born, as it were, to the hereditary service of the State, it is difficult to ascertain at what period, or under what circumstances, the Whig party have ever possessed, or could obtain, a more efficient leader.
 * Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby, or The New Generation (1844), p. 254

 * A great reputation built itself up on the basis of splendid public services for thirty years; for almost twenty it has, I fear, been on the decline. The movement of the clock continues, the balance weights are gone.
 * William Ewart Gladstone writing to Lord Granville in 1868, as quoted in John Morley, The Life of Gladstone, Vol. 2 (1903), p. 244

 * [H]e had for the last few years done nothing, but injure a brilliant reputation.
 * William Ewart Gladstone, comment made to Queen Victoria and recorded in her journal, 3 December 1868

 * He brought into public life, and he carried through it unimpaired, the qualities which ennoble mankind—truth, justice, fortitude, self-denial, a fund of genuine indignation against wrong, and an inexhaustible sympathy with human suffering.
 * William Ewart Gladstone writing in 1890, quoted in Early Correspondence of Lord John Russell 1805-1840, Vol. 1 (1913), edited by Rollo Russell, pp. 109-110

 * The sham power Lord John Russell periodically wielded was not only sustained by the influence exerted by the family of the Duke of Bedford, whose younger son he was, but also by the absence of all the qualities which generally fit a person to rule over others. His Lilliputian views on everything spread to others like a contagion and contributed more to confuse the judgment of his hearers than the most ingenious misrepresentation could have done. His real talent consists in his capacity to reduce everything that he touches to his own dwarfish dimensions, to diminish the external world to an infinitesimal size and to transform it into a vulgar microcosm of his own invention. His instinct to belittle the magnificent is excelled only by the skill with which he can make the petty appear great.
 * Karl Marx in Neue Oder-Zeitung, No. 347, July 28, 1855

 * Colonial reforms, educational schemes, the "liberties of the subject", public press and public meetings, enthusiasm for war and yearning for peace—all of them were but false pretences for Lord John Russell. The whole man is one false pretence, his whole life a lie, all his activity a continuous chain of petty intrigues for the achievement of shabby ends—the devouring of public money and the usurpation of the mere semblance of power. No one has ever illustrated more strikingly the truth of the biblical words that no man can add one cubit unto his stature. Placed by birth, connections, and social accidents on a colossal pedestal, he always remained the same homunculus—a dwarf dancing on the tip of a pyramid. History has, perhaps, never exhibited any other man—so great in pettiness.
 * Karl Marx in Neue Oder-Zeitung, No. 377, August 15, 1855

 * As long as the abolition of slavery was not openly announced, as he thought it ought to have been, as one of the main objects of the war on the part of the Federals, he felt no warm sympathy with their cause. But after President Lincoln's proclamation it was quite different, and no man rejoiced with deeper thankfulness than he did at the final triumph of the Northern States, for no man held slavery in more utter abhorrence.
 * Letter from Frances, Countess Russell to Justin McCarthy, October 20 1879, as quoted in Lady John Russell: A Memoir (1910), edited by Desmond McCarthy and Agatha Russell. p. 298

 * Heard poor old Ld Russell was dead, having died last night. He had been ill for the last 3 weeks, & his memory quite gone. He was nearly 86. A man of much talent, who leaves a name behind him, kind, & good, with a great knowledge of the constitution who behaved very well, on many trying occasions; but he was impulsive, very selfish (as shown on many occasions, especially during Ld Aberdeen's administration) vain, & often reckless & imprudent. He was a link with the past, & was one of my first Ministers 41 years ago.
 * Queen Victoria, journal entry on the death of Lord Russell, 29 May 1878

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Talk:Isoroku Yamamoto

On "...to awaken a sleeping giant...."
This line was invented for the movie Tora Tora Tora to give it an upbeat ending for American audiences. There's no historical proof he actually said that.
 * Yes, and the "sleeping enemy" quotation is presumably the correct one. Also, this Tokio Jokio wartime cartoon at the 3:23 mark illustrates the propaganda value to America of the "terms in the White House" quotation . 76.92.125.160 21:19, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

"Unsourced" versus "Misattributed"
Is there a real reason why these two sections - each containing only one quotation - should not ride under the single heading of "Unsourced"? The term "misattributed" is more properly applied to a remark that is associated with one particular speaker when it is known that the comment comes from another specific individual, and the correct source is supplied as an aspect of calling the statement "misattributed." In the case of the "rifle behind every blade of grass" lines to which Mr. Jackson takes such vehement objection, there is a failure to discern the source of the remark, or even speculation on the possible reasons why it had ever been so widely attributed to Yamamoto Isoroku. Merely that there is no positive documentation proving that said person ever uttered the words. Better to call it "Unsourced," nu?
 * "Unsourced" headings, which were previously used for sections of quotes without any citations are being gradually phased out from being in the main articles, but the appropriate heading on that particular quote would be "Disputed" as it is widely quoted, but it's authenticity is very dubious, but not perhaps, as yet disproven. Misattributed sections are for quotes where clearly there have been either errors or deliberately false attributions made. ~ Kalki 00:39, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Is Jackson's claim of the "rifle behind every blade of grass" quotation having been misattributed substantiated by anything? In plain fact, I see nothing on the cited Web page that properly attributes the quotation to anyone. Merely an assertion that Jackson had not been able to find anywhere any evidence positively tying it to anything that Yamamoto Isoroku had written or said.  Consider first that Jackson himself may not be an objectively reliable source for reasons of manifest political prejudice.  Get a look at his work on that Web site.  Second, remember that simply because a particular individual with Daltonism cannot differentiate between the colors red and green doesn't mean that these are not distinctly different colors.  If Jackson - or anyone else - were to track down the "rifle behind every blade of grass" remark to a specific originating source (and in the process almost certainly explain why it had been attributed to Admiral Yamamoto), I would be wiling to see it called "Misattributed."  Otherwise, you'd do better to move it into the "Disputed" category, wouldn't you?
 * Is Jackson's claim of the "rifle behind every blade of grass" quotation having been misattributed substantiated by anything? In plain fact, I see nothing on the cited Web page that properly attributes the quotation to anyone. Merely an assertion that Jackson had not been able to find anywhere any evidence positively tying it to anything that Yamamoto Isoroku had written or said.  Consider first that Jackson himself may not be an objectively reliable source for reasons of manifest political prejudice.  Get a look at his work on that Web site.  Second, remember that simply because a particular individual with Daltonism cannot differentiate between the colors red and green doesn't mean that these are not distinctly different colors.  If Jackson - or anyone else - were to track down the "rifle behind every blade of grass" remark to a specific originating source (and in the process almost certainly explain why it had been attributed to Admiral Yamamoto), I would be wiling to see it called "Misattributed."  Otherwise, you'd do better to move it into the "Disputed" category, wouldn't you?

Seriously? Factcheck.org is the only source we have disputing the quote and we take it this seriously? This would be like Glenn Beck disputing a quote from one of the founding fathers and us giving it the same undue credibility. Factcheck.org is a political website with an obvious agenda, and Jackson is extremely biased. I take him no more seriously than Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh. I don't think he or Factcheck.org should be referenced, especially when reading the first line of the article makes his intentions obvious. I can understand a note stating that no official record of the quote exists and it is disputed by some people. But please remove the reference to Jackson and Factcheck.org... Until a reputable historian/scholar publishes a dispute to this quote, we have no reliable source and can only tell the truth: there is no official record and no proof either way, thus the quote is disputed by some. My two cents.
 * We do not "take everything as fact until there is a reputable disproving it". Rather, we should not attribute apocryphal quotes to anyone unless we have a valid and reputable source. The fact that some overly-patriotic, ethnocentric, Americans see the need to incessantly assert the authorship of this quote does not constitute, nor necessitate, authentic roots.  I could state that IY said "I am God" but I doubt you would say that is an authentic (or disputed) quote as it has no reliable source, it is only here-say. Thus I assert that you should first show us an authentic source for the quotation, then we can call it "disputed". On a parenthetical note I do appreciate this issue being discussed on the page so as to combat the rumor.--Onhech (talk) 19:22, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
 * No, no bias there (just accusing all American of being war mongering racists)... In any case, his chief deputy related that Yamamoto said something to this effect. It was listed here at one point, which is why I even bothered coming here (I wanted the deputy's name), but mysteriously it's been stripped. ~AJR

On the "rifle behind every blade of grass" quotation
While digging around online, discovered another Web poster's remark to the effect that he'd found in Christian News (a Lutheran journal published in New Haven, Missouri) published on 4 February 2002 the following:

 * In 1960, Robert Menard was a commander aboard the USS Constellation when he was part of a meeting between United States Navy personnel and their counterparts in the Japanese Defense Forces. Fifteen years had passed since VJ Day, most of those at the meeting were WWII veterans, and men who had fought each other to the death at sea were now comrades in battle who could confide in each other. Someone at the table asked a Japanese admiral why, with the Pacific Fleet devastated at Pearl Harbor and the mainland U.S. forces in what Japan had to know was a pathetic state of unreadiness, Japan had not simply invaded the West Coast. Commander Menard would never forget the crafty look on the Japanese commander's face as he frankly answered the question. 'You are right,' he told the Americans. 'We did indeed know much about your preparedness. We knew that probably every second home in your country contained firearms. We knew that your country actually had state championships for private citizens shooting military rifles. We were not fools to set foot in such quicksand.'

This might have something to do with the attribution of the "behind every blade of grass" quotation to Yamamoto Isoroku.
 * of course, but then you realize who runs and dominates the edits in Wikipedia and then it all becomes clear why the main article reads the way it does. These editors and administrators have created or savedTM between 100 and 1,000,000 articles! 68.84.6.98 12:40, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

"Blade of Grass" Misattributed statement to general Yamamoto
While this mas be a seriously conflicted argument, I dare ANYONE to compare historical gun rate ownership rates with any rational military advisers opinion. This was a VERY turbulent time in both countries' history, and I am sure there are to this day many documents that were hidden or destroyed. Asking for proof from this time period is like asking for a molecule of metal amidst a haystack. While many opponents argue that most of the guns were owned by a small percentage of the population, do they really think that would have mattered when our country was facing invasion? The militia mentality is the only reason the US exists today. Without the militia mentality, our country would have been preemptively overwhelmed by a Japanese military force if those guns were owned and controlled by a small portion of the population. I realize this is all conjecture at this point, but anyone can look back historically and draw their own conclusions. Also, keep in mind that the Japanese language is very high context, allowing for many translation errors. Perhaps at some point in history a translator decided to read more into a statement that was quietly retracted. Either way, the sentiment remains. Screw with the US, and you will face a $hi+$+torm of bullets from all angles.
 * Your emotional rhetoric is unconvincing. 70.166.85.149 00:09, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Apart from all the rationalizations of why Yamamoto could be conceived to have said this, so far as has been determined, there is no substantiation of this statement being anything more than a relatively recent attribution, with no credible sourcing. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:22, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Having lived in Japan as part of the WWII US occupation forces, I can remember from a very young age the quote mentioned by my father who fought in the war. That the written passage has not been located, does not proved it is a bogus statement, merely that it has not yet been substantiated. Thus I would challenge the above post that this is "a relatively recent attribution", unless "recent" means 55+ years ago.

Disputed
I do not believe Factcheck.org is a reliable source. We don't link to Snopes, do we? If he provides a verifiable citation let's use it.

Chrononem (talk) 16:35, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

There's the citation. Prof. Goldstein: I have never seen it in writing. It has been attributed to the Prange files [the files of the late Gordon W. Prange, chief historian on the staff of Gen. Douglas MacArthur] but no one had ever seen it or cited it from where they got it. Some people say that it came from our work but I never said it. … As of today it is bogus until someone can cite when and where. Professor Goldstein didn't state that Yamamoto didn't say it; he stated he didn't see it written anywhere, so that "citation" means nothing, especially when coupled with the fact that the attributed quote came from the files of a historian (Gordon Prange) who was actually working DURING the war...he is a much more credible source than someone who didn't see it in writing, and definitely more credible than some guy who is basing his "facts" off of the guy who never saw it in writing.

The quote was stated in a letter to Ryoichi Sasakawa prior to the attack (while discussing the details of the pending attack). The referenced "letter" is claimed to be in the extensive personal files of Gordon W. Prange, the personal historian for Gen. Douglas MacArthur. The Yamamoto quote in this letter is said to be, "to invade the United States would prove most difficult because behind every blade of grass is an American with a rifle." Logic would suggest that the letter to Ryoichi Saskakawa from Yamamoto is in those files because why make a reference to a specific letter's existence, which can be verified by checking those extensive files if one has the time and energy, if such a specific letter does not exist? Just because Historian Donald M. Goldstein says he "never saw the document" is far from proof the specific letter somewhere deep in the Prange Files, does not exist. Those files are extensive. I believe I read somewhere, but can't be sure, that Prange himself stated the Yamamoto quote from time to time in conversations before he died. But the specific letter reference is far more relevant; and with time and energy, more verifiable. After all, it either does exist or it doesn't. But the facts remain. This is far from unattributable, and no one has disproven the attribution. When someone comes up with the letter to Ryoichi Sasakawa from the Prange files and it's not there, then we've disproven it. Until then, the quote stands. >>Only proved the Professor never saw it.

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Disclosure (film)

Disclosure is a 1994 film about a man who sues his female boss for sexual harrassment. It is based on the novel by Michael Crichton.
 * Directed by Barry Levinson. Written by Paul Attanasio. Based on the novel, Disclosure, by Michael Crichton.

sex is power

Tom Sanders

 * You wanna get fucked? Huh? Is that what you want?
 * Sexual harassment is about power. When did I have the power? When?
 * Why don't I just admit it? Admit that I'm that evil white guy everyone is always complaining about? Hey Chau-Minh, come down here so I can exercise my patriarchal urge!

Meredith Johnson

 * Let's get down to business.
 * You stick your dick in my mouth and NOW you get an attack of morality?
 * [Meredith passionately kisses Tom] There... Now that wasn't so bad, wasn't it?
 * Now you got the power. You got something I want.
 * Oh, you son-of-a-bitch ... you get back in here and finish what you started. Do you hear me? Do you hear me? You get back in here and finish what you started or you're fuckin' dead.  You hear me?  You're  FUCKIN' DEAD!

Susan Hendler

 * Oh Tom, you are the one person I know who sucks up to the people below you.
 * Of course everyone knows! I'm so old fashioned, I greet my employees with a handshake!
 * An "old girlfriend"... that's about as exclusive as the White Pages!
 * Ms. Alvarez, forty-eight hours ago my husband's penis was in another woman's mouth. I don't think there's anything in the law that can help me with that.

Other

 * Catherine Alvarez: [to Tom] Sexual harassment is not about sex. It is about power. She has it; you don't.

 * Catherine Alvarez: [to Meredith] It proves, Ms. Johnson, that a woman in power can be every bit as abusive as a man.

 * Bob Garvin: The Chinese say, "May you live in interesting times." Well this has been the most interesting merger since my second marriage.

 * Bob Garvin: This is America, goddammit. The legal system is supposed to protect people like me!

Dialogue

 * Meredith Johnson: [about Susan] I guess it can be a bit inhibiting.
 * Tom Sanders: What's that?
 * Meredith Johnson: Domesticity.
 * Tom Sanders: Oh, you'd be surprised.
 * Meredith Johnson: Oh, I don't imagine you can jump her from behind just because all of sudden you get excited just by the way she bends over to pick up the soap.
 * Meredith Johnson: [looks romantically in his eyes] You remember that...don't you?
 * Tom Sanders: Yeah, I remember that.
 * Meredith Johnson: And you miss it, don't you?
 * Tom Sanders: I have my compensations.
 * Meredith Johnson: Oh course...that's life. A series of trade-offs.

 * Meredith Johnson: Remember all the things we did?
 * Tom Sanders: Yeah, I remember.
 * Meredith Johnson: Things nobody knows about you and me.
 * [They kiss passionately]
 * Meredith Johnson: All... our secrets.

 * Meredith Johnson: Put it in.
 * Tom Sanders: [Looking at a mirror] Oh God, I can't do this.
 * Meredith Johnson: Come on. I want you inside me.
 * Tom Sanders: Oh no no no. I can't do this. I'm not gonna do this.
 * Meredith Johnson: Now, Now!
 * Tom Sanders: No. No. NO! NO!
 * Meredith Johnson: You can't stop. You just can't stop!

 * Tom Sanders: I did NOT have sex with her!
 * Susan Hendler: Oh, then what was it Tom? She was trying to quit smoking?

 * Susan Hendler: Did you have sex with her?
 * Tom Sanders: No! No! No!
 * Susan Hendler: How did her hand get into your pants?

 * Philip Blackburn: It gets worse. His lawyer is Catherine Alvarez.
 * Bob Garvin: Oh, great. She'd change her name to "TV Listings" just to get it in the paper.

Tagline

 * sex is power
 * A drink is on the table, and your future is on the line. Suddenly, an unwanted sexual advance has put you in the most uncomfortable of positions. Now, it's going to be your word... against hers!

Cast

 * Michael Douglas - Tom Sanders
 * Demi Moore - Meredith Johnson
 * Donald Sutherland - Bob Garvin
 * Caroline Goodall - Susan Hendler
 * Roma Maffia - Catherine Alvarez
 * Dylan Baker - Philip Blackburn
 * Rosemary Forsyth - Stephanie Kaplan
 * Dennis Miller - Mark Lewyn
 * Suzie Plakson - Mary Anne Hunter
 * Nicholas Sadler - Don Cherry
 * Jacqueline Kim - Cindy Chang
 * Joe Urla - John Conley Jr

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Where the Buffalo Roam

Where the Buffalo Roam is a 1980 comedy film based on stories by Hunter S. Thompson and starring Bill Murray as Thompson.
 * ''Directed by Art Linson. Written by John Kaye.

Based on the twisted legend of Hunter S. Thompson (taglines)

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

 * No need to panic. I'll just lash together a few raw facts, a little bit of old Negro wisdom, and this nightmare is over.
 * [Urging his dog to attack a Nixon mannequin] Bronco ... Nixon.
 * There, chew on that gibberish for awhile, you heartless scum!
 * I was a working journalist, a hired geek of sorts, and Lazlo was great copy and sometimes a great lawyer. It was a fast, strange time and we worked in a fast, strange ways.
 * [Reacting to a police officer's testimony in court] You were looking for a bomb in a pack of cigarettes?
 * I hate to advocate alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone but they've always worked for me.
 * You couldn't invent someone like Carl Lazlo. He was a ... he was one of a kind. He was a mutant. A real heavyweight water buffalo type ... who could chew his way through a concrete wall and spit out the other side covered with lime and chalk and look good in doing it.
 * He became a man the day of the greatest game he ever played. Everything he ever knew about common decency and morality he learned that day in December from Alan "The Horse" Ameche; and today in the Superbowl he would earn his wings.  The crowd had assembled; a crowd of America's elite.  Toyata salesmen from all around the country—orientals and even those suspected of being orientals—stacked on the thirty yard line watching him sweat and wipe caked blood from his face.  The Gallow brothers—Ernest and Julio—party guys who had skinned a few Mexicans and forced them to carry them on their shoulders down to the pre-game tailgate parties at the colosseum.  The Pepsi and Coca Cola bottlers of America—Coke adds life; It's the real thing—bombarded by missiles; flying flaming matchbook covers.  The waterheads from General Motors up in the top seats where they belong; getting the worst of the pollution.  All sorts of weird motherfuckers were at the game.
 * Super Sunday. Dawn.  My recollections of the last twelve hours are very dim.  All that I know for certain is that shortly after I checked in, two third-world drug abusers disguised as hotel employees forced their way into my room; ransacked it, drank all my liquor, did all my drugs, stole my dinner.  If the security precautions aren't beefed up at this hotel; I'm looking for safer accommodations.  It's a sad state of affairs when this reporter has to go heavily armed to breakfast.
 * Well I guess if I had to swear one way or another, I'd say Lazlo wasn't insane. He just had very strange rhythms. But he stomped on the terra. Lord Buckley said that. It's hard to say he got what he deserved, because he never really got anything, at least not in this story. And right now, this story is all we have ... It's sad. But what's really sad is it never got weird enough for me. I moved to the country when the boat got too crowded. Then I learned that President Nixon had been eaten by white cannibals on an island near Tijuana for no good reason at all. Golly, you hear a lot of savage and unnatural things about people these days. Lazlo and Nixon are both gone now, but I don't think I'm going to believe that 'til I can gnaw on their skulls with my very own teeth. Fuck those people, huh? If they're out there, I'm going to find them, and I'm going to gnaw on their skulls. Because it still hasn't gotten weird enough for me.

Carl Lazlo, Esq.

 * As your attorney, I advise you to leave this room at once.
 * As your ex-attorney, I advise you not to worry.

Dialogue

 * [Thompson, posing as a reporter for The Washington Post, is alone in an airport restroom when the "Candidate" (Richard Nixon) enters and starts using the urinal.]
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Hi sir, it's Harris from the Post. Can I get you anything sir?
 * Candidate: How's the family Harris?
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Oh the family, well that's bad news. The screwheads finally came and took my daughter away. Let me ask you a question sir, what is this country doing for the doomed? There are two kinds of people in this country, the doomed and the screwheads. Savage tribal thugs who live off their illegal incomes, burrowed deep out there; no respect for human dignity. They don't know what you and I understand, you know what I mean.
 * Candidate: You ever play football, Harris?
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Yes sir, thank you sir. I played in college, and they're gonna get your daughter too sir. I've heard their rallies, they like Julie but Tricia... and they really hate you sir. You know that one and a half of the State Senate of Utah are screwheads. You know I was never really frightened by the bopheads and the potheads with their silliness never really frightened me either, but these goddam screwheads, they terrify me. And the poor doomed, the young, and the silly, the honest, the weak, the Italians ... they're doomed, they're lost, they're helpless, they're somebody else's meal, they're like pigs in the wilderness.
 * Candidate: Come here Harris, come here. Fuck the doomed!

 * [Thompson is at a university, lecturing an auditorium full of enthusiastic students.]
 * College student: I was just wondering if you could tell me, um, if you thought drugs and alcohol would make me a better writer.
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: That's a good question. Let me see ...
 * [The crowd cheers as Thompson lights a marijuana joint. Some more joints are thrown onto the stage.]
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: In my case, you know, I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

 * [Thompson has barricaded himself in a hospital room, taken a young female nurse hostage and is handing her some pills.]
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Let me recommend ... ah, try blue.
 * Nurse Cookie: Really? Wow!
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Little bugger gets right on top of you doesn't it?

 * [Thompson is driving a car in San Francisco while also using a typewriter to take dictation from his attorney, Lazlo.]
 * Carl Lazlo, Esq.: You're really getting all this?
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: I'm a total professional.

 * [Thompson is in the hallway of a courthouse, doing pushups while the trial he is supposed to be writing about is going on. His editor comes to see him.]
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Marty, where the hell you been? I've been looking all over for you.
 * Marty Lewis: You are not registered at your hotel. Your rental car is reported stolen. Personally I couldn't give a shit, but you owe me a story.
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Is it due? Am I late?
 * Marty Lewis: You've got a deadline in 19 hours. Now where's my story?
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: It's right in there. [Thompson points towards the courtroom] I'm working on it. Great, too. It's developing very fast. I think it could be the best thing I've ever done. All I've got to do now is write it up.
 * Marty Lewis: mutters Write it up. [sternly, pointing at Thompson] You have 19 hours.
 * [Marty turns and walks back down the hallway as Thompson watches.]
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: You move like a cat, Marty

 * [Thompson has just arrived at a hotel in the back of a limousine. He is sprawled out and apparently unconscious. The chauffeur attempts to wake him.]
 * Chauffeur: Sir? Hey, sir. Hey sir!
 * [Thompson is immediately awake and dashes from the limo, holding his head.]
 * Chauffeur: Sir, is anything wrong?
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: My head!
 * Chauffeur: Your head?
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Who sent you here? Give me some answers ... straight answers.
 * Chauffeur: Yeah, okay, what do you want to know.
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Where am I?

 * [Thompson has just arrived at the hotel's front desk and is checking in.]
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Dr. Thompson, Blast magazine. I hope you have my suite ready because I need some supplies sent up right away. I'm going to need an IBM Selectric, heavy duty; a Xerox telecopier, the 516 model. Uh, I'm also going to need one of those Sony cassettees, big mother, 1800 ... lots of white paper, heavy bond, Bic pens, medium point blue ...
 * [Thompson grimaces, grunts, coughs and punches the hotel desk]
 * Hotel clerk: Sir! Please!
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: May as well get the room service cracking. Give me three crab louies for starters. A quart of Chivas, lots of ice, quart of mezcal, 16 grapefruit ...

 * [Thompson is on the telephone with his editor.]
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: What was that noise?
 * Marty Lewis: What noise?
 * Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: yelling into the receiver Get the tap off the goddamn telephone! Do you think you're playing with children here?!

 * [Lazlo enters a restaurant wearing a rubber mask of Richard Nixon.]
 * Restaurant cashier: Sir, you can't come in here looking like that.
 * Carl Lazlo, Esq.: I'm the president of the United States and I can do what I want.

Taglines

 * I hate to advocate weird chemicals, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone... but they've always worked for me.
 * Based on the twisted legend of Hunter S. Thompson

Cast

 * Bill Murray — Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
 * Peter Boyle — Carl Lazlo, Esq.
 * Bruno Kirby — Marty Lewis

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Max Headroom (TV series)

Max Headroom (1987-1988) was a short-run but ground breaking U.S. science fiction television series that grew out of a one-hour British TV movie titled 20 Minutes into the Future.

Security Systems [1.4]

 * Max Headroom: Do security guards ever have a party? And if they do...do they let each other in?

War [1.5]

 * Max Headroom: Hi, this is Max-Max Headroom on Network 23, brought-brought-brought to you by... ah... oh, no no no no no no-no-no. I'm sorry, but sorry, but if they think I'm endorsing car accessories, they've got another dipstick-stick coming!
 * [Uptempo music plays as clips of vintage auto films play in background.]
 * Max Headroom: No, no, they've tried this one before and I'm radial tired of it. If they expect me to change gear now and start spark-spark-sparkplugging their products, they must be out of their pis-pis-pistonheads! Listen, I don't like to blow my own gasket, but I have better things to do than to sit here and wax-polish lyrical about car parts! Car parts! I've got letters from fan-belts who say, 'Max! You're special! You're unique! You're differential!' Yes, yes, I know it's what they want... that's because they're air-conditioned to it. To it. (Oh.) To it. Oh, I've fendered it off time and timing belt again... I mean, who's calling the tu-tu-tune-up? Who's in cru-cru-c-cruise control here, anyway? I'll tell you who: Me! Me! Max Headlamp! And if they don't like it, they can stick-stick-stickshift it in their exhaust pipe and cho-choke it! And smoke it!

The Blanks [1.6]

 * [Janie Crane presses a button on a television, turning it off.]
 * Janie Crane: An off switch?
 * Metrocop: She'll get years for that. Off switches are illegal!

 * Blank Bruno: We're not against the computer, Max. We should be using it to take great leaps.
 * Max Headroom: Even a leap in the air starts with t-t-t-two feet on the ground, my friend.
 * Blank Bruno (his finger over a key): You are one keypress away from oblivion.
 * Max Heardoom: Aw, you don't wanna do that. I'm too irresistible! Too fas-fas-fascinating!
 * Blank Bruno: Fascinating. Even unique. But repeatable. (Max looks at him curiously) You see...Bryce Lynch was once my pupil.

Lessons [2.7]

 * Max Headroom: Have you any idea how successful censorship is on TV? Don't know the answer?  Hmm... successful, isn't it?

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User talk:63.23.37.95

This IP address has been blocked for 24 hours after being used to blank the talk page of a user that is experiencing multiple vandalisms. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:47, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:68.113.239.156

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Log

This is a log of closed deletion discussions for pages and other wiki constructs that were previously listed on Votes for deletion. All closed discussions should be listed either in the "Pending action" section or in one of the monthly pages listed below. Discussions should be listed in reverse-chronological order of their creation, not closure.

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User talk:Grand master~enwikiquote

~ Kalki 21:57, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Hanna Montana

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: Redirect to Hannah Montana. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:56, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Hanna Montana
This article, a misspelling of Hannah Montana, has no quotes. If any quotes were to be added, they would belong on the Hannah Montana page. Since the Hannah article has no intro, perhaps something from this page could be used in a merge; but what has been written on the Hanna page doesn't look like it could serve that purpose. - InvisibleSun 20:43, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Vote closed. Result: redirect to Hannah Montana (2 redirects; 1 delete). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:41, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Redirect to Hannah Montana, which is an American (Disney) TV show (which I mention explicitly because the target article currently doesn't have any introduction). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:34, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, since it is mispelled and contains no quotes. ~ UDScott 18:35, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect. (There is nothing on the Hanna page that needs to be merged with Hannah.) - InvisibleSun 04:25, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Connor hallam

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The result was: Delete. — Jeff Q (talk) 01:42, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Connor hallam
Non-notable. There's no Wikipedia page, and Google only has 11 results for a search on the name. Of these, most appear to be a minor co-author of several books on parenting, but I find it extremely unlikely that the sole quote on the page is from this person, thus leaving even fewer relevant results. —LrdChaos 13:37, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (5 deletes; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:42, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos 13:37, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete likely vanity page. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:18, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 14:19, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 18:36, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 02:44, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/The mudgopher

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The result was: Delete. — Jeff Q (talk) 01:59, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

The mudgopher
Not notable. No wikipedia page (for this capitalization, or the expected "right" capitalization), and there are less than 200 Google results, of which most of the top ones are Myspace, forum posting, and member profiles on websites. —LrdChaos 17:50, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (5 deletes; no dissent; no response from creator). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:43, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos 17:50, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: Additionally, and I hadn't noticed this at the time, the user that created this page is User:Themudgopher, which even more strongly suggests this is a vanity page. I've added vanity-warn to their talk page. —LrdChaos 17:52, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity page (or move to user page if user wishes, of course). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:19, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 14:17, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 18:36, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 02:44, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Petrolheads

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The result was: Keep. — Jeff Q (talk) 01:59, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Petrolheads
This page has section headers, and instructions to "(insert quotes)", but lacks actual quotes. —LrdChaos 13:23, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 10 August 2006, 14:00 (UTC)
 * Vote extended 1 week, to 17 August 2006, 18:00 (UTC). More votes are coming in on this close call, and I recently posted a specific request for proper sourcing to Holovirus, who has yet to carry through on the promise to "get some more quotes". ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:58, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: keep (4 keeps, incl. 1 implicit from creator; 2 deletes, incl. 1 from 1-edit anon; article restructured along TV-show lines & ep-sorted for sourcing). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:48, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos 13:23, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless actual, pithy, sourced quotes from the British "game show show about cars" are added. It would need some significant cleanup, too. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:52, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep now. I'm still concerned that no significant work has been done on this article by its instigators since minutes after Holovirus posted his request for more time. It's looking pretty much like an abandoned article. Futhermore, many of the quotes seem rather inane. But in a fit of insanity, I decided to restructure the article myself, so it's a least reasonably formatted for Wikiquote, and added cast, category, intro, and explanatory WP links. With the reformatting, it's easier to see that most of the quotes are sourced now, so much of my concern is reduced. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:04, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment Holovirus 13:20, 28 July 2006 (UTC) I'm the one who put up the article. I had limited time online yesterday, so I just had time to create it. I'm updating it all now so it has quotes and looks tidier, but I haven't seen one of them and have only 4 of the others recorded. I will need some help. I am re-watching the 4 I do have on video tonight to get some more quotes. Thank you.
 * Reply. Generally, if you start working on an article but aren't able to add any quotes to it, you shouldn't save it in the main namespace, because it's extremely like to be nominated for deletion (we just had several pages like that a few weeks ago; quotes were only added after they had been nominated for deletion). Since everything that is added is immediately viewable to the world at large, we prefer not to have "works in progress" that have no content. I suggest that, if you run into this situation again, you either save your progress in a text file on your own computer, or create a subpage of your user page (e.g., User:Holovirus/Petrolheads). User subpages are generally not deleted, except for then the user requests it or it's the work of a vandal. You can work on filling out the page there, and just use the "Move" feature to move it to its proper title when it's done. —LrdChaos 14:14, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Reply 88.105.50.218 18:06, 30 July 2006 (UTC) Thannks for understanding, and I'm getting help from friends to fill in gaps.
 * Keep now that quotes have been added. - InvisibleSun 18:52, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete - non-notable, bad spelling, none of the quotes are any good out of context, and there's big gaps everywhere! --82.45.239.132 12:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. I've suggested on this article's talk page that it be restructured into episode format, which provides a least a modicum of sourcing. (The current version is largely without sources, and those that aren't formatted for easy checking.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:33, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I've taken care of this myself. (See my above vote change.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:04, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, although reluctantly, since this page needs some work. But at least there are a few quotes sprinkled in. ~ UDScott 18:27, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:69.119.112.203

~ Kalki 05:45, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:203.166.99.250

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User talk:Guypuz

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User talk:Sachielzichel~enwikiquote

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User talk:ASecludedValley~enwikiquote

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User talk:Alistair reid2001

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User talk:Kxsiven

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User talk:Elaine Atnip

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User talk:BigMike1020

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User talk:Toratheus~enwikiquote

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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Toratheus. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Toratheus~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:37, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:00, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Definer

Welcome
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title: User talk:Definer


text:
User talk:IamSeamiru

Welcome
Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy! ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:31, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
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title: User talk:IamSeamiru