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Talk:Robert E. Lee

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 * We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers.

 * I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.

 * I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South was the true course; and I think so still. Controversy of all kinds will, in my opinion, only serve to continue excitement and passion, and will prevent the public mind from the acknowledgement and acceptance of the truth.

 * To be a good general you must love your soldiers.

Lee on Slavery
The quotation from Lee's 1856 letter on slavery is selective, and so presented is deceptive about Lee's views on slavery. The letter from which it is taken is not a condemnation of slavery; it's a condemnation of abolitionism, and Lee's comment on the "evil" of slavery is followed by claims that it is a necessary evil, that it is worse for the white slavers than for the Black slaves, and that the "painful discipline" of slavery is necessary for Blacks' "instruction as a race". (For more on Lee and slavery, see Robert E. Lee owned slaves.)

Here is the Lee quote put into proper context:

 * In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages. I think it however a greater evil to the white man than to the black race, & while my feelings are strongly enlisted in behalf of the latter, my sympathies are more strong for the former. The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially & physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing, is necessary for their instruction as a race, & I hope will prepare & lead them to better things. How long their subjugation may be necessary is known & ordered by a wise God.

I have supplemented the quote so as to add the context of Lee's remarks, and to add the citation of the source.
 * Thanks for the extra context; much appreciated. – Illegitimate Barrister 03:45, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

"Fold it up and put it away" - Not verified.
I changed the source for this quote to an earlier one and added that that source says the quote is not verified. Since this is a sensitive topic, I thought it wise to include a more detailed explanation here. It is instructive to see how supposed facts changed rather dramatically with just a couple of re-posts:

The previous Wikiquote attribution was this:
 * When asked by a woman on what she should do with a Confederate flag after the end of the American Civil War, as quoted in "Will Confederate Heritage Advocates Take Robert E. Lee’s Advice?" (July 2014), by Brooks D. Simpson, Crossroads, WordPress."

When we read the actual Crossroads article, we see it is citing a letter-to-the editor (more likely an op-ed) published a few weeks earlier: "According to David Cox, the author of the letter in question (and former rector of a Lexington church named after Lee), when someone asked Lee what she should do with a Confederate flag, he responded: Fold it up and put it away." https://cwcrossroads.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/will-confederate-heritage-advocates-take-robert-e-lees-advice/

And when we look at Cox's actual article, we see that he is not stating this as fact at all but is citing a personal letter to him -- that's right, the letter-to-the-editor is citing a personal letter -- and Cox states that he has not verified the quote: "Someone wrote me of a woman asking Lee what to do with an old battle flag. Lee supposedly responded, “Fold it up and put it away.” Though I’ve not verified the account, it is consistent with his letters and acts of his last years. He was always looking ahead." https://cwcrossroads.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/will-confederate-heritage-advocates-take-robert-e-lees-advice/

I hope we can learn more about this quote. Perhaps Mr. Cox can tell more about the letter he received, and the letter's author can shed even more light. In the meantime, according to our (currently) earliest source, it's not verified. Frappyjohn 04:44, 5 July 2015.
 * Interesting. The quote is consistent with his later views in life, though, as said in the letter, in which he preferred to put the war behind him and move on: "I could not add anything material to the information existing on the subject. I think it wiser, moreover, not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the example of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered." and "Don't bring up your sons to detest the United States government. Recollect that we form one country now. Abandon all these local animosities, and make your sons Americans." – Illegitimate Barrister 10:48, 1 August 2015 (UTC).

 * The link on the page (for this quote) has gone dead. I'm not familiar enough with the policies and guidelines on this wiki to change it myself, but some interested editor might want to look at that. Etamni (talk) 17:32, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

Restorations and removal of an unsourced attribution
I restored some portions of some lengthy sourced quotes which had recently been removed, and removed an unsourced addition by the editor who did these removals, rather than post it into a "Disputed" section, as the earliest use of this which I can locate is one without any source citations by a Calvin E. Johnson, Jr. in his Opinion posting "Let's Not Forget This Great American Hero - Robert E. Lee" at Chattanoogan.com (3 January 2007), in which he states:
 * Sir Winston Churchill once remarked, "Lee was the noblest American who had ever lived and one of the greatest commanders known to the annals of war."

This post was later re-posted elsewhere, but the statement only has acquired a very few actual occurrences on the internet, no print publications which I can find, and no sourced citations anywhere. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:55, 30 November 2016 (UTC) + tweaks

Source verification requested
Padre Steve’s blog contains some quotes that it would be good to include. Meaning no disrespect to Padre Steve, I would be more confident if someone with access to the original sources could verify. — Smallus Editus (talk) 15:36, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
 * If Virginia stands by the old Union, so will I. But if she secedes (though I do not believe in secession as a constitutional right, nor that there is sufficient cause for revolution), then I will follow my native State with my sword, and, if need be, with my life.
 * Alleged source: (Thomas, Emory. Robert E. Lee. W.W. Norton and Company, New York and London 1995 p. 187). Also quoted without attribution: ("Making Sense of Robert E. Lee." Smithsonian Magazine, July 2003).
 * With all my devotion to the Union and feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home. I have therefore, resigned my commission in the Army, and save in the defense of my native State…I hope I may never be called upon to draw my sword.
 * Alleged source: (Thomas, Emory. The Confederate Nation, 1861-1865, 1981).

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Walter Reuther

Walter Philip Reuther (September 1, 1907 – May 9, 1970) was an American leader of organized labor and civil rights activist who built the United Auto Workers (UAW) into one of the most progressive labor unions in American history. He was the husband of May Reuther, and the brother of Victor G. Reuther and Roy L. Reuther.

Quotes

 * There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by Reuther; as a professional speaker he used some phrases with only slight variation in different settings. [[File:Labor-Strike-Ford Motor Company-Walter Reuther fifth from the left-Richard Frankensteen sixth from the left - NARA - 195593.jpg|thumb|Let us never forget that he who would serve God must prove that he is worthy by serving man.]]

 * The American Dream is not about gadgets. It’s not about the size of our gross national product. It’s not about the level of technological sophistication. The American Dream is about man. It’s about broadening the opportunities and facilitating the growth of every human being, so that each person can reach out and achieve a sense of purpose and fulfillment.
 * Putting the World Together: My Father Walter Reuther: The Liberal Warrior (2004), by Elisabeth Reuther Dickmeyer, p. 134
 * Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie. Labor is fighting for a larger pie.
 * Writing in The New Republic, Vol. 114 (1946)Deerfire.jpg

 * We have a saying in the union: "If a fellow looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, the possibility is that he is a duck." That is the way with a Communist. If the guy does everything that the party does, the prospects are very good that he is a party member or fellow traveler.
 * Regarding Communists; hearing before the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (1953)[[File:Photograph of White House Meeting with Civil Rights Leaders. June 22, 1963 - NARA - 194190 (no border).tif|thumb|You cannot save democracy in a vacuum of idealism. You have got to be motivated by idealism, but you have got to also be fighting the hard problem of practical politics.]]

 * There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.
 * Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the United Auto Workers, Vol. 22 (1970) Apollo 15 flag, rover, LM, Irwin.jpg

 * American labor had better roll up its sleeves, it had better get the stiffest broom and brush it can find, and the strongest soap and disinfectant, and it had better take on the job of cleaning its own house from top to bottom and drive out every crook and gangster and racketeer we find. Because if we don't clean our own house, then the reactionaries will clean it for us. But they won't use a broom, they'll use an axe, and they'll try to destroy the labor movement in the process.
 * Section of the opening address of the sixteenth constitutional convention of the United Auto Workers, Atlantic City, New Jersey, April 7, 1957, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 192 Hyphenated Americans Voting Cartoon 1899.jpg

 * We live in a world in which the common denominator that binds the human family together has been reduced to its simplest fundamental term—human survival.
 * Address before the special constitutional convention of the United Auto Workers, Detroit, Michigan, January 22, 1958, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 214 1963 march on washington.jpg

 * We are going to keep preaching the gospel that freedom and democracy in peace are indivisible values in the world and that no one can have them unless they are universal and all people may share them.
 * Address before the special constitutional convention of the United Auto Workers, Detroit, Michigan, January 22, 1958, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 215

Opening address of the twelfth constitutional convention of the UAW (1949)

 * The trouble is that industry operates on the basis of these double economic and moral standards. They say to the worker when he is too old to work and too young to die, 'You cannot have security in your old age, that is reserved to only the blue bloods, only the ones who were smart enough to pick the right grandfather before they were born. They can have security, but if you live on the wrong side of the railroad tracks you are not entitled to it.'
 * Opening address of the twelfth constitutional convention of the UAW, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 10, 1949, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 39 Castle Romeo.jpg

 * We say to American industry, if you can afford to pay pension plans to people who don't need them, then by the eternal gods you are going to have to pay them to people who do need them.
 * Opening address of the twelfth constitutional convention of the UAW, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 10, 1949, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 41

 * We have to reassert the sovereignty of people above profits in America.
 * Opening address of the twelfth constitutional convention of the UAW, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 10, 1949, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 43 [[File:President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson Meet with Organizers of "March on Washington".jpg|thumb|We must learn to judge people, not by their color or race or creed, but rather by their worth as human beings.]]

Address accepting the Presidency of the CIO (1952)

 * You cannot make peace and freedom secure in the world as long as hundreds of millions of people are denied the necessities of life, so long as millions and millions of people are committed to belong to the have-not nations, and they and their children are denied the right to achieve economic and social justice.
 * Address accepting the Presidency of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Atlantic City, New Jersey, December 4, 1952, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 49-50 [[File:Photograph of President Truman in the Oval Office, conferring with labor leader Walter Reuther, president of the... - NARA - 200406.jpg|thumb|The great challenge before us is to find a way to get people and nations working together in the positive and rewarding task of peace as they have repeatedly joined together in the senseless and destructive waging of war.]]

 * Free management must realize that in a free society there is no substitute for the voluntary discharge of social responsibility.
 * Address accepting the Presidency of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Atlantic City, New Jersey, December 4, 1952, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 51 Klu Klux Klan LCCN2016824122.jpg

 * All the learned men with all their wisdom, with all of the legal niceties they can put together on the finest of parchment, cannot produce one ton of steel.
 * Address accepting the Presidency of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Atlantic City, New Jersey, December 4, 1952, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 51 Nehru and Reuther picture.jpg

Closing address at the final convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1955)

 * Let us never forget that he who would serve God must prove that he is worthy by serving man.
 * Closing Address at the final convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, New York, New York, December 2, 1955, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 102 Peace corps logo16.svg

 * There is no greater calling than to serve your brother. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
 * Closing Address at the final convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, New York, New York, December 2, 1955, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 102 God2-Sistine Chapel.png

A Separate Opinion to the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy (1956)

 * In the struggle for the hearts and minds of millions of yet uncommitted people in the economically underdeveloped portions of the world, the more young Americans we send to help as technical missionaries—with slide rule, with textbook, and with medical kit—to work in the pursuit of peace, the fewer we might need to send with guns and flame-throwers to resist Communist aggression on the battlefields.
 * A Separate Opinion to the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, submitted as a member of the Panel on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, January 25, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 126 Sleeping, homeless children - Jacob Riis.jpg

Address before the Indian Council on World Affairs (1956)

 * The great challenge before us is to find a way to use the bright promise of science and technology in a massive retaliation against poverty, hunger, and social injustice in the world.
 * Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 130 [[File:Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Leaders of the march posing in front of the statue of Abraham Lincoln... - NARA - 542063 (cropped).jpg|thumb|But in truth, America is the last, best hope of freedom. If we can't make freedom and democracy work in America, then it can't be made to work any place in the world.]]

 * Free labor understands and acts in the knowledge the the struggle for peace and the struggle for human freedom are inseparably tied together with the struggle for social justice.
 * Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 131

 * We believe that it is not enough to fight against the things that we oppose—we must fight with equal courage and equal dedication for the things that we believe in.
 * Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 131 Da Vinci Vitruve Luc Viatour.jpg

 * Democratic nations must seek and find unity in diversity, while Communists achieve unity through conformity.
 * Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 133 Approaching Omaha.jpg

 * Only in an atmosphere of freedom can the creative genius of the human spirit find full expression.
 * Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 135 28 - New York - Octobre 2008.jpg

 * I have been saying for a long time that I believe the more young Americans who are trained to join with other young people in the world to be sent abroad with slide rule, textbook, and medical kit to help people help themselves with the tools of peace, the fewer young people will need to be sent with guns and weapons of war.
 * Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 136 Statue of Liberty, Silhouette.jpg

 * The struggle against racial intolerance and racial discrimination and bigotry must be waged everywhere in the world wherever such immoral and ugly practices exist.
 * Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 141

 * We must learn to judge people, not by their color or race or creed, but rather by their worth as human beings.
 * Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 141

 * Just as the moral and spiritual power of Gandhi won in Indian, so American Negroes shall win in America, and they shall take their place as free and equal citizens in the family of American democracy.
 * Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 141

 * The great challenge before us is to find a way to get people and nations working together in the positive and rewarding task of peace as they have repeatedly joined together in the senseless and destructive waging of war.
 * Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 141

 * If the peoples of great nations can work, sacrifice, fight, and die together because they share common fears and common hatreds in war, why can we not find a way to tap the great spiritual reservoir that lies deep within each of us and get people and nations working, sacrificing, and building together in peacetime because they share common hopes and common aspirations.
 * Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 141

Statement to the Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections (1956)

 * You cannot save democracy in a vacuum of idealism. You have got to be motivated by idealism, but you have got to also be fighting the hard problem of practical politics.
 * Statement to the Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections, Washington, D.C., October 9, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 170

Address before the National Council for Social Studies of the National Education Association (1956)

 * The crisis in the world is not economic, military, or political; essentially, it is a moral crisis. It is a reflection of man's growing inhumanity to man, which finds its most horrible expression in the total destruction now made possible by the H-bomb. I believe our problem is a reflection of the fact that there is a growing and most serious moral and cultural gap between the progress we have made as a people in the physical sciences, and our lack of progress in the human and social sciences. We know much better how to work with the machines than we know how to live with people.
 * Address before the National Council for Social Studies of the National Education Association, Cleveland, Ohio, November 23, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 178

 * Why do we have these machines? Is economic effort an end, or is it a means to an end? Obviously it must be a means to an end. And the end must be the enrichment of human life, and the expansion of frontiers for human growth, not for just the few, but for the many.
 * Address before the National Council for Social Studies of the National Education Association, Cleveland, Ohio, November 23, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 180

 * I ask this simple question. I ask it of you and I ask it of my fellow Americans everywhere. Why is it that we have the courage to mobilize the power of America to meet the challenge of war, but we fail to have the same courage to mobilize America to meet the challenge of peace?
 * Address before the National Council for Social Studies of the National Education Association, Cleveland, Ohio, November 23, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 184

 * I'm proud of the role the American labor movement has played historically in fighting to make education possible for everyone's child. We share the belief that every child is made in the image of God and that every child ought to have the right to an educational opportunity that will enable that child to grow intellectually and spiritually and culturally—not limited by antiquated classrooms, overcrowded classes, or underpaid teachers—but limited only by the capacity which God gave that child to grow.
 * Address before the National Council for Social Studies of the National Education Association, Cleveland, Ohio, November 23, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 186

 * I've read in the papers, as you do, about juvenile delinquency. I've always had a feeling that the problem in America is not juvenile delinquency, but adult delinquency. Our children are not failing us—it is we who are failing our children.
 * Address before the National Council for Social Studies of the National Education Association, Cleveland, Ohio, November 23, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 186

 * These are the sober facts. This is where we are. We stand there in that delicate, precarious balance on the rim of hell, and on the other side is this brave new world that lies ready to be realized. This is one of the great tragedies of the world—and you history teachers perhaps know it better than I—that we find chapter after chapter of the history books filled with the stories of man's inhumanity to man and of the great wars. In those great wars of the world's history, many nations achieved their highest expression of collective action—they worked, they marched, they sacrificed, and they died because they were driven forward by the negative motivations of war and because of their common fears and common hatreds. I believe that the great challenge of the leadership of the world is to find a way to tap the great spiritual reservoir, the great spiritual power that lies deep within the human breast, and find a way to get people working, marching, building, and sacrificing because of positive peacetime motivations and because they have common hopes, common aspirations, and common faith.
 * Address before the National Council for Social Studies of the National Education Association, Cleveland, Ohio, November 23, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 189-190

Address before the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1957)

 * I'm proud to belong to the NAACP, because it is made up of people who are dedicated in a great crusade to make America true to itself. This is what this is about. Make America live up to its highest hopes and aspirations and translate those hopes and aspirations into practical, tangible reality in the lives of all people, whether they are white or black, whether they live in the North or the South. I say that each of us is blessed that we can be engaged in this crusade, in this struggle for justice, for human dignity, in this struggle to wipe out in every phase of our national life every ugly immoral kind of discrimination.
 * Address before the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Detroit, Michigan, June 26, 1957, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 195

 * When the employer can divide you and pit white against black, American-born against foreign-born, he can divide and rule and exploit everyone.
 * Address before the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Detroit, Michigan, June 26, 1957, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 197

 * I've often thought: Why is it that you can get a great nation like America marching, fighting, sacrificing, and dying in the struggle to destroy the master race theory in Berlin, and people haven't got an ounce of courage to fight against the master race theory in America? We need the same sense of dedication, the same courage, and the same determination to fight the immorality of segregation and racial bigotry in America as we did in the battlefields against Hitlersim.
 * Address before the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Detroit, Michigan, June 26, 1957, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 197

 * I have been saying for a long time that the crisis in the world is not economic or political or military. Essentially, the crisis in the world is a moral crisis. It's a reflection of man's growing immorality to himself, of man's growing inhumanity to man. The H-bomb is the highest and most terrible destructive expression of that growing inhumanity. And in a sense our crisis in America—the crisis in education, the crisis in civil rights—is not political, it is moral. But we haven't demonstrated the moral courage to step up to solving these problems, and this is our basic problem. America is in crisis, not because it lacks the economic resources, not because it lacks the political know-how, not because we don't know how to do the job of squaring democracy's practices with its noble promises. We just haven't demonstrated the moral courage. And until we do, we will not meet this basic crisis in civil rights and in education.
 * Address before the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Detroit, Michigan, June 26, 1957, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 197

 * Just sit down on a doorstep with a peasant in a village of Northern India and take on the task of trying to explain to him why America, conceived in freedom and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, a nation that can split the atom, that can make a pursuit ship go three times as fast as sound and yet, in this twentieth century, we can't live together in brotherhood and we continue to discriminate against Negroes. It will tax your ingenuity, and you will give them no answers. You can only give them excuses. And excuses are not good enough, if we are going to win the struggle of freedom in the world.
 * Address before the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Detroit, Michigan, June 26, 1957, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 201

 * But in truth, America is the last, best hope of freedom. If we can't make freedom and democracy work in America, then it can't be made to work any place in the world.
 * Address before the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Detroit, Michigan, June 26, 1957, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 203

 * The Supreme Court is living in the twentieth century and the Congress is still somewhere back in the dark nineteenth century. It's about time they catch up.
 * Address before the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Detroit, Michigan, June 26, 1957, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 203

 * Well, I want to say to these people in Congress that they have been on the longest sit-down strike in the history of America—eight long years. And we think it's about time that they terminate that sit-down strike on civil rights and begin to turn out some legislation.
 * Address before the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Detroit, Michigan, June 26, 1957, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 203

 * Well, there are some mighty fine people in America who tell you, "yes," they are against discrimination in every phase. They are opposed to it in terms of job opportunities. They are opposed to it in terms of education. They are opposed to it in terms of transportation. But, they say, "legislation is not the way to do it; you've got to get hatred out of men's hearts." Well, we agree. Education is important. But you can't educate this problem out of existence by education alone. You've got to work both on the educational front and the legislative front. And you've got to parallel those two activities right down the line.
 * Address before the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Detroit, Michigan, June 26, 1957, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 205

 * We want an America in which every child has educational opportunity, an America in which every citizen has equal job opportunity, equal rights to the use of all public facilities, the right to live in a decent neighborhood, in a decent home.
 * Address before the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Detroit, Michigan, June 26, 1957, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 207

 * The task is difficult. The struggle will be hard, but let us always remember that human progress has never been served to mankind on a silver platter. The history of the world shows chapter after chapter that men of faith and courage have had to fight to bring to fulfillment their dreams and their hopes and their aspirations. What we need to do is keep the faith. Keep the faith in ourselves. And when the going is rough, as it will be, let us remember the the test of one's convictions is not how did you behave, how did you stand up, when it was convenient and comfortable. The test of one's convictions is: Do you stand up for the things you believe when it takes courage? Do you stand up in the face of adversity, in the face of great controversy? This is the kind of fight we are engaged in. That's why when the going is rough, always remember that there are millions of us, and that together we can move mountains, and that together we can solve this problem and make America in the image of what it really stands for. So I say to you, we pledge our hands and our hearts, we pledge our all to you in this struggle, because we believe that this is the most important struggle that America must win, if it is going to be true to itself and provide leadership to the free world. And if we mobilize our multitudes, if we mobilize all the people of good will and good faith in America, I say that we can do the job, and together we can build that brave new tomorrow that we dream about and fashion it in the image of peace, freedom and justice, and human brotherhood.
 * Address before the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Detroit, Michigan, June 26, 1957, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 207-208

Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally (1959)

 * '''Freedom is an indivisible value and when the freedom of one is threatened the freedom of all is in jeopardy.
 * Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally, West Berlin, Germany, May 1, 1959, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 279

 * No man and no people live as an island unto themselves.
 * Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally, West Berlin, Germany, May 1, 1959, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 279

 * The real test of friendship and solidarity is not where one stands when the weather is fair and the sun is shining but rather where one stands at a time of storm and stress.
 * Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally, West Berlin, Germany, May 1, 1959, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 280

 * Freedom, like peace, can be made secure only as it is made universal.
 * Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally, West Berlin, Germany, May 1, 1959, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 280

 * We must negotiate from unity and strength and stay firm on matters of principle and flexible on matters of procedure.
 * Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally, West Berlin, Germany, May 1, 1959, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 280

 * For centuries man has struggled to divide up economic scarcity. There was too little food for the hungry, too little clothing for the naked. Now for the first time in the history of mankind, we have within our grasp the economic tools of unprecedented abundance which can end man's ageless struggle against want and misery. The same scientific and technical know-how which brought forth the H-bomb and guided missiles gives to the world automation and the tools of economic abundance. Will mankind have the vision and common sense to use the new tools of abundance to usher in an era of human progress and human fulfillment?
 * Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally, West Berlin, Germany, May 1, 1959, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 280

 * This is our goal—a world of peace, freedom, and social justice for all people everywhere.
 * Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally, West Berlin, Germany, May 1, 1959, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 280

 * Together we shall build a world of peace, freedom, security, social justice, and brotherhood.
 * Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally, West Berlin, Germany, May 1, 1959, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 280

Meeting with Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev (1959)

 * One thing we must do, most of all, in the future, is to harness the atom for peace and get all of the miners out of the earth.
 * Text of interview with Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, San Francisco, California, September 20, 1959, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 301

 * The only war America wants to fight is war against poverty, hunger, ignorance, and disease. It's the only war mankind can win.
 * Text of interview with Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, San Francisco, California, September 20, 1959, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 302

 * Therefore, as we see it, the cold war is not an attempt to change each other's systems of government, but to influence those that are uncommitted.
 * Text of interview with Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, San Francisco, California, September 20, 1959, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 303

 * Wall Street says I am an agent of Moscow, and Moscow says I am an agent of Wall Street.
 * Text of interview with Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, San Francisco, California, September 20, 1959, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 314

Television interview with Mike Wallace (1960)
Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 317
 * I think one of the things we need to do is to avoid the tragic waste of human potential.

 * I happen to believe that this is the crux of where we're going in terms of the future of the American economy. I think that the basic problem is to find a way to work out the competing equities among the three groups—the worker, the stockholder, and the consumer—so that we share the abundance in a way that would create the dynamics of growth and expansion.
 * Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 319

 * We will not meet the problems of tomorrow by talking about yesterday's concepts.
 * Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 310

 * The problems of tomorrow require whole new concepts of how a free economy can work. As the tools of production become more productive, it means that we've got to find the markets by which people can absorb this greater productivity. Unless the fruits of technology are shared among workers and stockholders and consumers more equitably, the economy gets in trouble because you develop a lag between the ability to create wealth on the one hand, and the inability of people to consume the wealth that we know how to create.
 * Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 320

 * When we get to the place in the development of our society where the tools of abundance can take care of the material needs of the outer man with less and less human effort, the real emphasis then has to be shifted to enabling the inner man to grow.
 * Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 321-322

 * I am for the state only doing what people are unable to do in the absence of government action.
 * Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 322

 * If we don't plan for the constructive and creative use of the growing measure of human leisure that we're going to have based upon our technological progress, we can wind up as a well-fed nation of morons.
 * Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 323

 * You've got to judge the worth of the government not by what it does to help the few who have too much to get more, but what governments does to help the many to get enough.
 * Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 325

 * Now this essentially is the difference between the Republican party and the Democratic party. Philosophically, the Republican party believes that if you help big business to earn higher profit, they will then invest more money in plants. That will create more job opportunities. That will create full employment. They've got this trickle-down theory that you can build prosperity from the top down. The Democrats basically believe that you've got to build prosperity from the bottom up by expanding purchasing power, by doing the things that will make it possible for all the American people to participate in prosperity.
 * Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 325

 * Now I share the basic philosophy of Abraham Lincoln when he said that the purpose of government is to enable the people to do together through the instruments of government what they are unable to do without the aid of government.
 * Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 327

 * I only want the government to do the things that you can't do without the government.
 * Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 328

 * I'm grateful for the contribution [private enterprise] made, but even in the early days of capitalism the government helped a great deal. The railroads got tremendous land grants, the steamship companies got subsidies—they still get subsidies–the airlines got subsidies; none of these great industries developed without some assistance from the government. The whole question here, Mike, the whole question is not are you opposed or are you in favor of government intervention into certain areas of our free society. The question is: Whenever people are either unable or unwilling to do what must be done to maintain the health and advance the well-being of the whole society, then government is the only instrument that the whole people have to look to to do that job. Now, I'm for limiting that; I'm for encouraging voluntary nongovernmental approaches. This is why I try to do everything I can at the collective bargaining table; this is why we fought on the Social Security front, on the pension front. But when you've got a problem like education or medical care for the aged that you can't solve on a nongovernmental basis, then the government must do the job.
 * Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 329-330

 * Well, you see, I have nothing against Goldwater. I think he has the finest eighteenth century mind in the U.S. Senate.
 * Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 330

 * I think Jimmy Hoffa is bad for the American labor movement because I believe that he is surrounded by forces who are interested in a fast buck, and I think that anybody in the leadership of the American labor movement has got to be dedicated to the advancement of the well-being of the rank-and-file and their families, and whenever they're interested in a fast buck, they ought to be on the other side of the table.
 * Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 330

Telegram to President Lyndon B. Johnson regarding "Bloody Sunday" (1965)

 * Americans of all religious faiths, of all political persuasions, and from every section of our Nation are deeply shocked and outraged at the tragic events in Selma Ala., and they look to the Federal Government as the only possible source to protect and guarantee the exercise of constitutional rights, which is being denied and destroyed by the Dallas County law enforcement agents and the Alabama State troops under the direction of Governor George Wallace. Under these circumstances, Mr President, I join in urging you to take immediate and appropriate steps including the use of Federal marshals and troops if necessary, so that the full exercise of constitutional rights including free assembly and free speech be fully protected. Sunday's spectacle of tear gas and night sticks whips and electric cattle prods used against defenseless citizens demonstrating to secure their constitutional right to register and vote as American citizens was an outrage against all decency. This shameful brutality by law enforcing agents makes a mockery of Americans’ concepts of justice and provides effective ammunition to Communist propaganda and our enemies around the world who would weaken and destroy us. Mr President, your prompt and decisive leadership in this crisis is imperative in demonstrating Americans’ fundamental allegiance to the constitutional rights of all citizens. Prompt and decisive action on your part will moreover discourage the apostles of hatred, bigotry, and violence, who would divide America. It will give great encouragement and added strength to the many Americans in the South who, like you and the vast majority of Americans, believe that every citizen has a moral and constitutional right to register and vote. I am confident that in this crisis, Mr President, you will act with the same conviction, courage, and compassion which has characterized your leadership and other periods of challenge.
 * Telegram from Reuther to President Lyndon B. Johnson, March 9, 1965, Congressional Record

Quotes about Reuther

 * Walter Reuther was an American visionary so far ahead of his times that although he died a quarter of a century ago, our Nation has yet to catch up to his dreams.
 * President Bill Clinton, Presidential Medal of Freedom Ceremony, The White House, September 29, 1995, Clinton Administration Archive

 * Every worker today stands on the shoulders of giants, people like Lucy Parsons, Cesar Chavez, Bayard Rustin, Eugene V. Debs, and Walter Reuther.
 * Kim Kelly (journalist) Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (2022)

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John Wentworth

"Long" John Wentworth (5 March 1815 – 16 October 1888) was the editor of the Chicago Democrat, a two-term mayor of Chicago, Illinois, and a six-term member of the United States House of Representatives.

Quotes

 * You damned fools. You can either vote for me for mayor or you can go to hell.
 * Quoted in Chicago Magazine, June 2006

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Vaslav Nijinsky

Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky (March 12, 1890 – April 8, 1950) was a famous Russian ballet dancer.

Quotes

 * People like eccentrics and they will therefore leave me alone, saying that I am a "mad clown."
 * As quoted in Vaslav Nijinsky : A Leap into Madness by Peter F. Ostwald, Ch. 8: Playing the Role of a Madman, p. 176
 * Unsourced variant: I know everyone will say "Nijinsky has gone mad," but I don’t care because I have already played the mad man at home. That is what everyone will think, but they won’t put me in an insane asylum because I dance very well and give money to anyone who asks. People like eccentrics, so they will leave me alone and say I’m a mad clown. I like the mentally ill because I know how to talk to them. When my brother was in an insane asylum, I loved him and he could feel me. His friends liked me. I was eighteen then. I understood the life of a mentally ill person.

Quotes about Nijinsky

 * Alphabetized by author

 * Nijinsky’s life can be simply summed up: ten years of growth, ten years of learning, ten years of dancing, thirty years of darkness. Altogether some sixty years. How long he will live on in people’s memories, we can only guess.
 * Richard Buckle, Nijinsky (1971)

 * New artistic impulses were coming to life all over Europe, and most of them had a definite relation with the art of the theatre in one or other of its numerous forms. The full history of these fresh developments, and of the resulting cleavage between the old ballet and the new, has yet to be written. Here we must be content to trace that cleavage in part to the influence of a new school of music which had risen to power within Russia itself, in part also to the more extraneous influences which came, via Moscow, from Prof. Reinhardt the German, and from Gordon Craig the Englishman. Nor must we forget the liberating force which sprang from the art of Isadora Duncan, whose heroic practice has done more than any precepts of philosophy to widen our ideas as to the intellectual and spiritual possibilities of the dance.
 * Geoffrey Whitworth, on influences on Nijinsky, in The Art of Nijinsky (1914), Ch. 2, p. 17

 * Hebetude. It is a graph of a theme that flings The dancer kneeling on nothing into the wings, And Nijinsky hadn't the words to make the laws For learning to loiter in air; he merely said, "I merely leap and pause."
 * Richard Wilbur, in "Grace" in The Poems of Richard Wilbur (1963)

 * The Diary of Vaslav Nijinjsky reaches a limit of sincerity beyond any of the documents that we have referred to on this study. There are other modern works that express the same sense that civilized life is a form of living death; notably the poetry of T. S. Eliot and the novels of Franz Kafka; but there is an element of prophetic denunciation in both, the attitude of healthy men rebuking their sick neighbors. We possess no other record of the Outsider's problems that was written by a man about to be defeated and permanently smashed by those problems.
 * Colin Wilson in The Outsider, p. 115 (1956)

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Lindsey Graham

Lindsey Olin Graham (born 9 July 1955) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from South Carolina, a seat he has held since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Graham served as chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary from 2019 to 2021.

2006

 * Let's just get to the political heart of the matter, No matter what you want to call it, beyond border enforcement, a lot of people, particularly on our side, don't want to have a debate about this. Even if you debate it, you're wrong. Even if you're open-minded about compromise, you're wrong. It's a very simple answer to a complex problem. Send them all back. End of discussion, end of debate. Now that to me is not a realistic approach to a real problem.
 * On immigration; articles.sfgate.com, 17 March 2006 accessed 4 February 2010

2009

 * I'm not a libertarian. If you are, you're welcome to vote for me and help this party, but we're not gonna build the party around libertarian ideas.
 * South Carolina GOP convention (16 May 2009), as quoted in "Lindsey Graham gets combative over GOP's future" (2009), Political Thinker, State of Georgia: Cable News Network

2010

 * I want to talk very quickly about the world as we wish it to be. As we celebrate tonight, let's embrace in our hearts the world that we all wish it to be, a world where there's no rockets from Gaza, no Hezbollah attacks from the north, where Palestinian children go to school without being taught hate -- that's the world we wish it to be. An Iran controlled by its people, not some theocracy. An Iran governed by someone other than a Holocaust denier -- that's the world we wish it to be. An Iran pursuing peaceful nuclear power, not a nuclear weapon. A world where moderate Muslims are celebrated, not condemned and killed. An Afghanistan where a young girl never fears the soccer stadium, but can go to school and achieve her dreams. A free and independent Iraq where Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds can settle their differences at the ballot box and through the rule of law and be an inspiration to the Mideast. A UN, a United Nations that can actually control thugs and dictators. A United Nations that would never issue the Goldstone Report. That's the world as we wish it to be. This is the world as it is, and if you don't know the difference, then the world is a dangerous place. I know the difference between the world as we wish it to be and the world as it is. The world as it is, is a divided Palestinian people, a place that allows rockets to be launched from apartment buildings, a place for a mosques are weapon storage sites, a place where school children are taught hate -- that's the world as it is.
 * Lindsey Graham, Speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, delivered 22 March 2010

2015

 * And here's the first thing I would do if I were president of the United States. I wouldn't let Congress leave town until we fix this. I would literally use the military to keep them in if I had to. We're not leaving town until we restore these defense cuts. We are not leaving town until we restore the intel cuts.
 * "Politics and Pies" forum hosted by Concord City Republican Committee (7 March 2015)

 * I am running (for president) because I think the world is falling apart.
 * As quoted in "Lindsey Graham announcing at CBS “This Morning” interview his presidential bid" (18 May 2015), by Dylan Stableford, "YAHOO Politics"

 * "Everything I know about the Iranians I learned at the pool room," [Graham] said. "I met a lot of liars, and I know the Iranians are lying."
 * As quoted in "Republican conference: Day two - Bush 'proud' of family" (22 May 2015), by Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation

 * We have never seen more threats against our nation and its citizens than we do today.
 * As quoted in "America's Next Top Fearmonger: The presidential candidates compete to scare the daylights out of the U.S. public." (22 May 2015), by Robert Golan-Vilella, National Interest

 * There are bad people in this world who are motivated by hate.
 * As quoted in "South Carolina Governor Releases Strangely Obtuse Statement On Black Church Shooting" (18 June 2015), by Julia Craven, The Huffington Post

 * I can't explain this. I don't know what would make a young man at 21 get so sick and twisted to kill nine people in a church; this is beyond my understanding... There are real people out there who are organized to kill people in religion and based on race. But it's 2015 there are people out there looking for Christians to kill them. So this is a mean time we live in.
 * As quoted in "Lindsey Graham Says SC Church Shooting Suspect Dylann Roof Was His Niece's Classmate" (18 June 2015), by Ali Dukakis, ABC News

 * As a party, we are better to risk losing without Donald Trump than trying to win with him. Enough already with Mister Trump.
 * Twitter post (August 2015)

2016

 * It’s like [choosing between] being shot or poisoned.
 * Lindsey Graham about whether he would choose Trump or Cruz for the President of the United States. February 21, 2016

 * If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody could convict you.
 * Graham commenting on unpopularity of Cruz in the Senate. As quoted in February 26, 2016

 * If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed... and we will deserve it.
 * Commenting on the long-term effect a Trump nomination would have on the Republican Party (5 May 2016)

 * Embracing Donald Trump is embracing demographic death.
 * Commenting on Donald J. Trump's unpopularity among Hispanic American voters (6 May 2016)

 * I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy [on the United States Supreme Court] occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say, “Lindsey Graham said, ‘Let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination,’” and you could use my words against me, and you’d be absolutely right.
 * Commenting on Mitch McConnell's decision to obstruct the Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination on the grounds that the 2016 election was less than nine months away, March 10, 2016; when such a vacancy occurred as a result of the September 2020 death of, Graham endorsed having her replacement be appointed by then-incumbent Republican president Donald Trump, even though the 2020 election was less than two months away.

2017–2020

 * Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.
 * Statement by Senators McCain & Graham on Executive Order on Immigration (27 January 2017) from the Office of Senator John McCain regarding [Donald J. Trump]'s Executive Order 13769 entitled "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States", as quoted by Jacob Sallum from Reason magazine in Here Is What Republican Critics of Trump's Immigration Order Are Saying on January 31, 2017

 * Finally, a president willing to take on this absurd policy of birthright citizenship. I’ve always supported comprehensive immigration reform – and at the same time – the elimination of birthright citizenship. In addition, I plan to introduce legislation along the same lines as the proposed executive order from President
 * 7:45am then 7:51am then 11:01am as quoted 30 October 2018 by CBC

 * I am trying to give a pretty clear signal I have made up my mind. I'm not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here. 'I'm not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here': Graham predicts Trump impeachment will 'die quickly' in Senate, December 14, 2019

 * To young people out there, young people of color, young immigrants, this is a great state, but one thing I can say without any doubt, you can be an African American and go to the Senate but you just have to share our values. If you’re a young, African American or an immigrant, you can go anywhere in this state, you just need to be conservative, not liberal. Graham debating Jamie Harrison in Columbia, South Carolina

2021–2024
You've got guns. Use them. We give you guns for a reason, use them. Lethal force should have been used. How come you didn't protect us? It's doing your job.
 * What are you doing? Take back the Senate!
 * Comments (January 6, 2021), as cited by Joseph Choi "Graham told officers on Jan. 6 to use their guns on rioters: report", The Hill (November 1, 2021)
 * "Lethal force" was used, as Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot.

I hope they go to jail and get the book thrown at them because they deserve it.
 * I don’t want to reinforce that defiling the Capitol was okay. I don’t want to do anything that would make this more likely in the future.
 * The Gateway Pundit (January 30, 2022)

 * It is a sad day for the Supreme Court and a dangerous day for the Rule of Law. The radical assault on our institutions and the Constitution itself has reached a new level with the release of a draft opinion on a major issue facing the Court
 * "Collins, Manchin and other lawmakers react to the Supreme Court draft opinion", Politico (May 3, 2022)

 * If there’s a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information, after the Clinton debacle … there’ll be riots in the streets.
 * "Lindsey Graham Warns Of 'Riots In Streets' If Trump Is Charged Over Classified Docs" (August 29, 2022), Quote made on Fox News' Sunday Night in America on August 28, 2022.)

 * Here’s an offer to my Russian ‘friends’ who want to arrest and try me for calling out the Putin regime as being war criminals: I will submit to jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court if you do.
 * Politico (May 29, 2023)

 * [Military assistance to Ukraine] The best money we’ve ever spent.
 * "Longer video shows Lindsey Graham did not call Russians dying ‘the best money we’ve ever spent'", Reuters (May 31, 2023)

 * They're sitting on 10 to $12 trillion of critical minerals in Ukraine. They could be the richest country in all of Europe. I don't want to give that money and those assets to Putin to share with China. If we help Ukraine now, they can become the best business partner we ever dreamed of, that 10 to $12 trillion of critical mineral assets could be used by Ukraine and the West, not given to Putin and China. This is a very big deal how Ukraine ends. Let's help them win a war we can't afford to lose. Let's find a solution to this war. But they're sitting on a gold mine. To give Putin 10 or $12 trillion for critical minerals that he will share with China is ridiculous.
 * "Transcript: Sen. Lindsey Graham on "Face the Nation", CBS News (June 9, 2024)

Quotes about Graham

 * The reason to condemn Trump and Graham for their “lynching” remarks is not to score a partisan point or because it will make a difference in their language or behavior. It’s because we haven’t actually resolved the trauma of the past. Historical spaces are still contested. The scars are still present.
 * Jamelle Bouie Article (2019)

 * This is deeply misleading at best and laughably false at worst. You could, I suppose, defend Graham’s assertion by saying that we face a greater number of threats than we have in the past. But it makes very little sense in a country that, among other things, has seen its own White House burned down, fought a bloody civil war and two world wars, and survived several close brushes with apocalyptic thermonuclear war during the Cold War.
 * Robert Golan-Vilella, as quoted in "America's Next Top Fearmonger: The presidential candidates compete to scare the daylights out of the U.S. public." (22 May 2015), by R. Golan-Vilella, National Interest.

 * The Senator's repulsive remarks are racist, period. This type of discourse should have no place in American politics... Graham essentially admits to being a bigot, because nothing says 'I'm stereotyping' more than basing judgment of an entire people solely on a handful of interactions in a pool room... Graham's racist statement raises concerns about his ability to speak on vital national security matters such as the nuclear negotiations with Iran. Because if you judge an entire people based on your experience running a pool hall-liquor store, do you really have the judgment to keep America safe? This is Graham's 'I can see Russia from my house' moment... Senator Graham owes the Iranian-American communit, one of the most successful communities in the United States, an apology. And all others presidential hopefuls,Republicans and Democrats, should condemn his bigoted comments.
 * Trita Parsi, as quoted in "NIAC Condemns Senator Graham’s Racist Statement, Demands Apology" (24 May 2015), National Iranian American Council.

 * I would use him as a canary in the coalmine and the degree to which he has doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on Trump says everything. Whether you like him or not, he has a good political nose for his base. He knows South Carolina well and his reading the tea leaves is not to be dismissed.
 * Mark Sanford according to "I’m a citizen with no country:’ Mark Sanford on turning against Trump and his party" (August 23, 2021)

 * Trump’s normally loquacious rivals are swaggeringly eager to confront Vladimir Putin, but are too invertebrate — Lindsey Graham is an honorable exception — to voice robust disgust with Trump and the spirit of, the police measures necessary for, and the cruelties that would accompany, his policy.
 * George Will, "Trump Should Have No Place in the Party of Liberty and Limited Government" (22 August 2015), National Review.

 * Trump seemed to love the adulation but said to Graham, "You're a middle-of-the-road guy. I want you to be 100 percent for Trump." This resembled the loyalty pledge that then FBI director James Comey said that Trump had asked of him. According to Comey, Trump had said, "I need loyalty. I expect loyalty," during their now famous one-on-one Green Room dinner in the White House during the first week of the Trump presidency. "Okay, what's the issue?" Graham asked, "and I'll tell you whether I'm 100 percent for you or not." "You're like 82 percent," Trump said. "Well, some days I'm 100 percent. Some days I may be zero." "I want you to be a 100 percent guy." "Why would you want me to tell you you're right when I think you're wrong? What good does that do for you or me?" Graham asked. "Presidents need people that can tell them the truth as they see it. It's up to you to see if I'm full of shit."
 * Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House (2018), p. 317

 * The dead-seated hatreds of American politics flourished in the Trump years. He stoked them, and did not make concerted efforts to bring the country together. Nor did the Democrats. Trump felt deeply wronged by the Democrats who felt deeply wronged by Trump. The walls between them only grew higher and thicker. My 17 interviews with Trump presented a challenge. He denounced Fear, my first book on him, as untrue, a "scam" and a "joke," calling me a "Dem operative." Several of those closest to him told him that the book was true, and Lindsey Graham told him that I would not put words in his mouth and would report as accurately as possible. Trump decided, for reasons that are not clear to me, that he would cooperate. To his mind, he would become a reliable source. He is reliable at times, completely unreliable at others, and often mixed... But the interviews show he vacillated, prevaricated and at times dodged his role as leader of the country despite his "I alone can fix it" rhetoric. As America and the world know, Trump is an overpowering presence. He loves spectacle. In a time of crisis, the operational is much more important than the political or the personal. For tens of millions the optimistic American story has turned into a nightmare.
 * Bob Woodward, Rage (2020), p. 389-390

 * I blame myself for Lindsey Graham, because the only reason he won in the Great State of South Carolina is because I Endorsed him!
 * Former president Donald Trump, quoted in "‘I Blame Myself for Lindsey Graham’: Trump Continues Verbal Flogging of Republican Senator", Mediaite, April 8, 2024

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Jim Crace

Jim Crace (born 1 March 1946) is a British novelist.

Quotes

 * I’m not interested in truths, like drawing an accurate picture of the real world. I’m interested in exploring the verities of the human condition.
 * "What Is This Thing Called Bronze?", interview with Robin Pogrebin, The New York Times (1989-07-16)

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Keeping Up Appearances

Keeping Up Appearances (1990-1995) is a BBC sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke, and starring Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket.

Daddy's Accident

 * Onslow: Oh, nice!

 * Elizabeth: I thought it was 3:25.
 * Hyacinth: Not quite, dear.
 * Elizabeth: My watch says 3:25.
 * Hyacinth: Oh, that watch. Yes, I expect it would.

 * Hyacinth: No, you cannot have a number 24 nor a double portion of 37. This isn't the Chinese takeaway. This is a private, slimline, white telephone with no connection whatsoever to any business or trade. Especially not one of foreign extraction!

The New Vicar

 * Hyacinth: Rose, you will not commit suicide! I forbid it.

 * Hyacinth: The Bucket residence, the lady of the house sp--no, you cannot have three of 22 and a portion of 19 with chips. This is not the Chinese takeaway. This is a private, slimline, pearl white telephone with no oriental associations whatsoever!

Stately Home
Hyacinth is startled into the hedge by the barking dog
 * Onslow: Less noise, you daft bitch! That goes for you as well, dog!

The Charity Shop

 * Hyacinth: Sheridan deserves a father full of executive stress, wearing a bow-tie.

 * Daisy: She's a real organiser, our Hyacinth.
 * Onslow: She's a real...
 * Daisy: (interrupts quickly) Onslow!

A Strange Man

 * Milkman: Good morning, Mrs. Bucket.
 * Hyacinth: It's Bouquet.

 * Hyacinth: It's a matter of complete indifference to me whether it's sterilised, pasteurised, immunized, or privatised.

Driving Mrs Fortescue

 * Hyacinth: I hope you're not going to spoil things with lower-middle class humour.

 Hyacinth is talking on the phone with her sister Violet
 * Hyacinth: What's wrong with your husband, dear?
 * Hyacinth: Whims and fancies. [chuckles]
 * Hyacinth: They all have their whims and fancies.
 * Hyacinth: In what way is Bruce going strange?
 * Hyacinth: [laughs] Well, I'm sorry, Violet, but I thought for a moment there that you said he wanted you both to dress up as Robin Hood and Maid Marian. [chuckles]
 * Hyacinth: Oh, he does want you both to dress up as Robin Hood and Maid Marian.
 * Hyacinth: What do you mean I haven't heard the worst part?
 * Hyacinth: He wants to be Maid Marian.

The Candlelight Supper

 * Emmet: She'll sing at me! She always sings at me.

 Hyacinth receives a phone call from Sheridan
 * Richard: What does he want?
 * Hyacinth: I don't know that he wants anything, dear. He's just ringing his Mummy to wish her all the best for...(to Sheridan) You need a cheque for how much, dear?

Problems with Relatives

 * Hyacinth: I once caught Richard playing with a Frisbee. He said it's one he found, but I've never been sure.

 * Hyacinth: I thought I heard a willow warbler! Did you hear a willow warbler? It's one of my absolutely all-time favourite songsters.

Onslow's Birthday

 * Hyacinth: (on the phone to Violet) Why is Bruce sobbing? ... But is it a large tear in his flamenco frock?

 * Major Wilton-Smythe: Ah, the Bucket filly (pronounced "Bouquet")!

Singing for Emmet
Another customer for the Chinese take-away rings up
 * Hyacinth: The Bucket residence, the lady of the house speaking! ...Do I sound like a Chinese takeaway? I am a highly desirable private residence in an area of outstanding natural property values, and I am waiting for your apology... unless, of course, the thought of bean shoots and crispy won-ton have stir-fried your basic humanity. Now kindly clear this line! There are people of substance in this community who are probably queueing to ring me at this very moment! ...Your suggestion is noted, but I see little practical merit in having the telephone up my jumper.

 * Hyacinth: (on the phone) May I speak to the Vicar, please? Not available? Is he busy? ...Oh, ringing the bells. Rings his own bells? How democratic.

The Toy Store

 * Hyacinth: (on the phone to Violet) I've got Elizabeth and Emmet here. You remember Elizabeth, from next door. Her husband works abroad somewhere; one of those Arab countries. Yes, you met her at one one of my candlelight suppers. She drops things.

The Three-Piece Suite

 * Hyacinth: The Bucket residence, the lady of the house speaking! No, I cannot send round another portion of stir-fried squid with fish balls and broccoli. This is not the Green Lotus Chinese takeaway. I may only be one digit removed, but believe me, it's a whole other world. ...I heard that, and it wasn't Chinese.

A Picnic for Daddy

 * Vicar: Oh damn! It's the Bucket woman!
 * Vicar's wife: Should you be saying "damn" like that?
 * Vicar: Not normally, no. (prepares to leave)
 * Vicar's wife: What are you doing?
 * Vicar: I'm turning round.
 * Vicar's wife: You can't turn round! You have to help these people.
 * Vicar: I suppose you're right.
 * Vicar's wife: (notices Rose) Oh damn! It's the vampire sister! You were right! Turn round! Turn round!
 * Vicar: I can't turn round now! They've seen us!

 * Hyacinth: How fares the church worldwide then, vicar? For instance, what is the missionary position in China these days?

Christmas Special: The Father Christmas Suit (1991)
Onslow and his family will be coming for Christmas Eve
 * Hyacinth: They are my family and I love them dearly, especially at this time of year, when it gets dark early.

 * Hyacinth: If there's one thing that distinguishes us from other people, it's the absence of vulgar noises.

 After a phone conversation with Mrs Thorgunby, whom she mistook for a child at first
 * Hyacinth: What a silly little voice!

Early Retirement
Richard has just locked Hyacinth out of the house by mistake
 * Richard: I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking.
 * Hyacinth: I will not have you not thinking in front of the neighbours, Richard!

Iron Age Remains

 * Hyacinth: It could be a Neanderthal barrow, dear. It says in the guidebook they had barrows. I expect they wheeled rocks about and things!

 * Hyacinth: If my Sheridan were here, he'd be appalled.

Violet's Country Cottage

 * Emmet: What's wrong with you, Liz? Why are you so subdued? Two whole days Hyacinth-free!
 * Elizabeth: Not quite.
 * Emmet: There's something you haven't told me.
 * Elizabeth: Yes.
 * Emmet: Well, go on. Tell me.
 * Elizabeth: Hyacinth wants us to visit them this evening...at the cottage...for a barbecue.
 * Emmet: You didn't say yes!
 * Elizabeth: I didn't say anything! When does one ever say anything? We're just expected! Oh, don't cry, Emmet! I hate it when you cry! Oh!

How to Go on Holiday without Really Trying

 * Hyacinth: If there's one thing I can't stand, it's snobbery and one-upmanship. People trying to pretend they're superior. Makes it so much harder for those of us who really are.

 Rose appears at the church in a frilly skirt, carrying a feather duster
 * Hyacinth: Rose, what are you doing?
 * Rose: I've come to help out with the church cleaning for that dishy vicar!

Richard's New Hobby
Sheridan is apparently still wearing his knee bandage, to Hyacinth's relief
 * Hyacinth: (on the phone) I've always thought you looked like Mummy's brave little soldier. Well, perhaps not soldier, dear. More like Mummy's brave little poet or interior designer.

The Art Exhibition
Daddy has run away to join the French Foreign Legion
 * Richard: Do you know which way he's gone?
 * Hyacinth: To France! Go to the roundabout and head for France!

 * Mrs. Lennox: Oh damn! It's the Bucket woman!

 * Hyacinth: It's a terrible thing to lose one's Daddy just before a cheese and wine.

What to Wear When Yachting

 * Onslow: Did you bring any beer?
 * Rose: No, I didn't.
 * Onslow: I'm sitting here, completely surrounded by no beer!

 Emmet is not looking forward to visiting Hyacinth on a yacht
 * Emmet: It's chilling. Just imagine: a whole night on board some old bucket, with another old Bucket!

A Job for Richard

 * Hyacinth: (to the postman) I hope that's a first-class stamp. I object to having second-class stamps thrust through my letterbox. I should have thought postmen would be trained to recognise first-class stamp houses.

 * Hyacinth: Richard! I've been offered a job at Frosticles!
 * Richard: Take it, Hyacinth! Please!
 * Hyacinth: I couldn't do that, dear. You'd be so bored at home without me.

Country Retreat

 * Hyacinth: Beautiful day, Elizabeth?
 * Elizabeth: Yes, isn't it.
 * Hyacinth: Completely conducive to contemplating cosy charismatic country cottages.

A Celebrity for the Barbecue

 * Rose: Onslow, Father's on the roof again!
 * Onslow: Ask him if he's got my bottle opener!

Looking at Properties

 * Richard: What's wrong now?
 * Hyacinth: You don't look like someone on business. You look like someone who's gone to fetch a Daddy from a police station.

 ''Richard has dropped Daddy off at Onslow's house. This is one of the few times that Daddy speaks''
 * Richard: Bye!
 * Daddy: (mischievously) His car won't start!

Please Mind Your Head

 * Hyacinth: Now listen, horse: I'm not a person to be trifled with.

Let There Be Light

 * Daisy: Why don't we have a second honeymoon?
 * Onslow: I remember what happened the first time.
 * Daisy: Me too. I remember what happened the first time.
 * Onslow: We argued the all the time.
 * Daisy: Not all the time.
 * Onslow: Nearly all the time. I couldn't get over that confession of yours!
 * Daisy: Well, I thought it was only proper. If we were starting married life, we shouldn't have any secrets.
 * Onslow: But what a time to spring it on a bloke. On his wedding night! I barely got started on all your new underwear and then you told me.
 * Daisy: I thought it was a bit much, you getting straight up and going out for a long walk.
 * Onslow: I had to think about things. I had to decide if I could live with it.
 * Daisy: I can't think what was so bad about it!
 * Onslow: You should have come clean about it before we got married.
 * Daisy: You wouldn't have married me.
 * Onslow: You were lucky I didn't divorce you.
 * Daisy: It's not grounds for divorce.
 * Onslow: Being a Liverpool supporter!

Christmas Special: Sea Fever (1993)

 * Onslow: You look up at the sky and you think 'That's nice.' Little do you realise it's full of black holes! They can suck you in. Compress all your matter.
 * Daisy: (looking at his stomach) It could do with a bit.
 * Onslow: Oh, nice!
 * Daisy: Look, if it's going to upset you, you have to stop watching Open University.

 * Onslow: I wish we could afford a new car.
 * Daisy: I wish we could afford this one.

 * Richard: I'll be up there, looking for icebergs and growing a beard.

 * Richard: I believe I could get used to this; going places and not having to drive. (to himself) Not that I ever do drive. I just steer and follow instructions.

 Hyacinth is genuinely angry about having to push the Rover 200 when it gets stuck
 * Hyacinth: You'll pay for this, Richard Bucket! (realises her mistake) ...Bouquet!

Christmas Special: Angel Gabriel Blue (1994)

 * Hyacinth: The Bucket residence, the lady of the house speaking! No, you cannot have a number 41 with noodles instead of rice. Do I sound like the Green Lotus? What do you mean "sounds more like the Green Dragon"? Look, I must warn you, you're speaking to a white slimline telephone within the precincts of a clergyman. And a very merry Chinese New Year to you, too!

 Why ask the Vicar for advice about a kitchen work surface?
 * Hyacinth: When you have to choose between Angel Gabriel Blue and Lucifer Grey, you need the spiritual advice.
 * Richard: Oh, I see.
 * Hyacinth: I had to have the Vicar's confirmation that this is Angel Gabriel blue.

 * Daisy: A strange man in the house.
 * Rose: (looks at Onslow) There's been one here for years.
 * Daisy: What are we going to do?
 * Onslow: Well, I know what I'm gonna do. (hits the TV and sits down)
 * Daisy: Onslow, you can't just sit there watching telly when there's a strange man in Father's bed!
 * Onslow: Throw him out.
 * Rose: You can't! He's got a receipt!

The Senior Citizens' Outing

 * Hyacinth: (on the phone to Sheridan) Your car needs a respray? Oh, but I thought your friends liked that lilac colour.

The Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball

 * Richard did not enjoy playing Mark Antony at the last ball
 * Hyacinth: Oh no dear! I couldn't let you loose as a Roman again!

 * Hyacinth is dismayed to see that she is not the only guest dressed as Queen Boudica
 * Hyacinth: Home, Richard! I will not share my throne with those impostors!

A Riverside Picnic

 * Hyacinth: It's my sister, Violet. She's the one with the Mercedes, sauna and a musical bidet. Classical, of course.

Skis

 * Hyacinth: (on the phone) Look, Rose. If you need somewhere private, bring him here. Then I can keep an eye on you, and Richard can show him his skis!

 * Miss Pilsworth (Seeing Hyacinth coming) Oh, Lord. It's the Candlelight Queen.

Country Estate Sale

 * Elizabeth: You're a grown man!
 * Emmet: And she's a groan a minute!

 * Hyacinth: (a little tipsy) I do hope, your Lordship, that someday you'll give me the pleasure of entertaining you at one of my candle-lie slippers. We shall most deferably be having a glass or two of the Dowager Lady Ursula's home-goose wade-berry mine.

 * Hyacinth: (drunk) Don't turn left, Richard. Strrraight on!
 * Richard: Why?
 * Hyacinth: I want to take a little gift to Daddy: a bottle of the Dowager Lady Ursula's gomemade wooseberry hine.

A Barbecue at Violet's

 * Hyacinth is harassing a man in a phone box. Richard decides enough is enough
 * Richard: Hyacinth, stop that at once and GET INTO THE CAR!
 * Man in phone box: Well done, sir! In wartime, you'd have got a medal for courage like that.

The Rolls Royce

 * Rose: Why is Onslow reading the Financial Times?
 * Onslow: I like to keep an eye on the economy. A bloke in my position has to wonder how long the country can afford him. If we don't get the economy right, people like me are gonna be in trouble! It's the duty of all of us to be concerned about the shrinking pound.
 * Daisy: And when I married him, I thought he was just a sex symbol.

The Hostess

 * Hyacinth: Now, what shall I wear to answer the telephone?

 * Hyacinth: The Bucket residence, the lady of the house speaking! No, I do not have an offer on spicy prawn balls. This is not the Chinese takeaway. And will you please get off my white slimline telephone with last number redial?

 While fleeing from a group of men expecting a striptease artist
 * Hyacinth: You have one last task to perform.
 * Richard: What's that?
 * Hyacinth: To go back into Number 24a.
 * Richard: Why, for goodness' sake?
 * Hyacinth: To get Daddy out!

Christmas Special: The Pageant (1995)

 * Hyacinth: (on the phone to Daisy) I need volunteers. My other people didn't turn up. Everybody seems to be ill. There's an epidemic doing things to grandmothers you just wouldn't believe!

 Hyacinth is leaving the church hall on a stretcher, after being injured by some falling scenery
 * Hyacinth: (to Richard) Please make sure Onslow wears a tie at the funeral.
 * Vicar: It was just a bump on the head, Mrs Bucket.
 * Hyacinth: Tell God it's Bouquet!

Miscellaneous

 * Hyacinth: The Bouquet residence, the lady of the house speaking.

 * Hyacinth: It's my sister, Violet, the one with the Mercedes, sauna and room for a pony.

 * Hyacinth: Oh, Richard!

 * Hyacinth: I must answer my white, slimline telephone with last number redial, it's bound to be someone important.

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User talk:217.23.231.69

Buffy quotes
I hope you don't mind, but I did something I haven't done since I created the Buffy quote page — I removed one of the quotes you added:
 * Riley: The other stuff what I do I can't tell you.
 * Buffy: Well then let me.

I did it because I couldn't find anything particularly pithy or amusing about the two lines without including a large chunk of surrounding dialog. (The entire scene is an important one between Buffy and Riley, but it's hard to pick a short selection of the 30 or so lines of dialog that conveys the import.) Since the Buffy quote article is extremely long (it's the largest on Wikiquote, by a solid margin!), it's rather important to include concise quotes with special humor or emotional value. (Some people also like to add some of the important but lengthier dramatic monologues, too, which I haven't opposed, but which I hope people keep to a reasonable number, or else the page will get too large to load!)

If you don't agree with me, I would suggest you post a comment on the Buffy talk page, so other readers and contributors can consider the issue, too. You can also talk to me on my own talk page, especially if you would like assistance with creating and participating in Talk discussions.

I also formatted your other quotes, revised the text to match actual dialog, and added some surrounding text to provide the quotes with enough context and humorous passages to be of interest to non-fans, all of which is standard practice on these TV quote pages. Let me know if you have any questions. — Jeff Q 12:32, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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