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William Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the ninth president of the United States. Harrison first gained national fame as a war hero, defeating American Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 and earning the nickname "Tippecanoe" (or "Old Tippecanoe"). Harrison died exactly one month into his term, making his presidency briefer than any before or since. He was also the first U.S. president to die in office.

Quotes

 * The strongest of all governments is that which is most free.
 * Letter to Simón Bolívar (27 September 1829). Quoted in James Hall, A Memoir of the Public Services of William Henry Harrison, of Ohio (Philadelphia, PA: Key & Biddle, 1836).

 * ...there is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
 * Letter to Simón Bolívar (27 September 1829). Quoted in The Life of Major-General William Henry Harrison: Comprising a Brief Account of His Important Civil and Military Services (Philadelphia, PA: Grigg & Elliot, 1840)

 * It is necessary, therefore, to watch, not the political opponents of the administration, but the administration itself, and to see that it keeps within the bounds of the Constitution and the laws of the land. The executive of the Union has immense power to do mischief if he sees fit to exercise that power. He may prostrate the country. Indeed this country has been already prostrated. It has already fallen from pure republicanism to a monarchy in spirit if not in name.
 * Speech at Fort Meigs (11 June 1840). Quoted in A B Norton, The Great Revolution of 1840: Reminiscences of the Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign. (Mount Vernon, OH and Dallas, TX: A B Norton & Co, 1888). p.186

 * ...all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
 * Speech given on October 1, 1840

 * Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
 * Last words to John Tyler. Quoted in Jebediah Whitman, "A Memorial to Our Dear Departed President" (New Ark, DE: Printed by the Author, 1841).

Inaugural address (March 4, 1841)

 * The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

 * …it is preposterous to suppose that a thought could for a moment have been entertained that the President, placed at the capital, in the center of the country, could better understand the wants and wishes of the people than their own immediate representatives, who spend a part of every year among them, living with them, often laboring with them, and bound to them by the triple tie of interest, duty, and affection.

 * I have determined never to remove a Secretary of the Treasury without communicating all the circumstances attending such removal to both Houses of Congress.

 * There is no part of the means placed in the hands of the Executive which might be used with greater effect for unhallowed purposes than the control of the public press.

 * The people of the District of Columbia are not the subjects of the people of the States, but free American citizens.

 * It may be observed, however, that organized associations of citizens requiring compliance with their wishes too much resemble the recommendations of Athens to her allies, supported by an armed and powerful fleet.

 * Fellow-citizens, being fully invested with that high office to which the partiality of my countrymen has called me, I now take an affectionate leave of you. You will bear with you to your homes the remembrance of the pledge I have this day given to discharge all the high duties of my exalted station according to the best of my ability, and I shall enter upon their performance with entire confidence in the support of a just and generous people.

Quotes about Harrison

 * William Henry Harrison's death marked the first time in American history that presidential power abruptly transferred from one man to another. It is a testament to the American system that without precedent or clarity in the Constitution, power transferred so seamlessly and swiftly through a seminal historic moment of ambiguity. This particular transfer of power was made all the more remarkable by the extraordinary set of circumstances that led to the annexation of Texas in 1844 and precipitated war with Mexico. The war, which was fought by Tyler's successor, James K. Polk, failed to win popular support from a population that supported admission of Texas, but preferred not to fight.
 * Jared Cohen, Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America (2019), p. 81

 * A plain-spoken man, Harrison was good-natured, affable, and accessible. The Reverend Timothy Flint, a frequent visitor to his home at North Bend, Ohio, described him as urbane, hospitable, kind, and utterly unpretentious.
 * William A. DeGregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1984), p. 137

 * Yelping at the scent of a wounded fox, the Whigs threw everything into the campaign of 1840. It is still remembered as one of the great campaigns, and yet "great" seems too majestic a word for what was basically the cynical triumph of advertising over substance. After nominating the elderly military hero William Henry Harrison, the Whigs fell into paroxysms of excitement over the rumor that their candidate lived in a log cabin and had a fondness for hard cider. In fact, neither claim was true. Harrison was born into a considerably more substantial dwelling, an old brick mansion on the James River in Virginia. But that did not matter in the least. When in doubt, print the legend- and the image of an impoverished boy running around a log cabin entered the popular folklore, well before Lincoln ever figured out that modesty was a path to power. The great irony, of course, is that the log-cabin-and-hard-cider slogan was much truer of van Buren's life than his opponent's, and that he was being outsmarted by a ruthless opposition that had mastered all of his techniques. But no one was interested in the truth in 1840- only in the result.
 * Ted Widmer, Martin Van Buren (2005), p. 136-137

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Nuisance articles
Hi. I reverted many quotations you added to Anonymous, since they looked like personal quotations by you or people you know. Please note that wikiquote is not the place for those. If they are not, please add them back stating where you found them (a newspaper, a book, etc.). Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 21:19, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi. Please do not create articles without any quotations in them, they will be deleted. If you want help in creating articles, please see Requested entries. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 19:05, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

In addition, please stop creating half-baked articles with one quotation thrown in, no proper introduction or any semblance of real work. These kind of things do not help Wikiquote become a better resource for quotations, they only create more work for the regular editors who must check new additions, and delete or properly tag them. At the very least, please attempt to follow the formatting guidelines and properly categorize. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 19:13, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Please stop creating articles with no (or only one) quotation thrown in, no proper introduction or any real substance. I have filled some of your pages with quotes, but it's really not that hard to find quotes. Please do the work yourself before creating these pages - or just add them to the list of requested pages, rather than creating empty pages. You are only creating more work for the editors who must check new additions, and delete or properly tag them. If you continue to add meaningless pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikiquote. Thanks ~ UDScott 17:10, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

UD where can i find quotes??169.244.143.115 17:12, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I just searched for "Dido quotes" on google to get the bare minimum quotes I added under "Attributed" then you just need to be sure you follow the template for a person. If you want to add more (for instance lines from her songs), search for "Dido lyrics" and add them as well. UDScott 17:17, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

great thanks... can we get 4 Strings music group.169.244.143.115 17:20, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi. I've blocked you from editing for 24 hours after both UDScott and I asked you, repeatedly, to stop creating short articles with no introduction or a half-hearted written one, no categorization and one or no quotations. In 24 hours, you are welcome to come back and make edits which contribute to Wikiquote. Might I suggest helping with existing articles rather than creating new ones? If you continue with the pattern of contributing near-useless articles, you might be blocked for longer periods of time, and I doubt any of us wants that. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 22:24, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi. I've blocked you for 2 days, after you created Enya. Please stop creating such pages, they do not improve wikiquote. I ask that you contribute to wikiquote, instead of creating more work: otherwise, we will be forced to block you for longer periods of time. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 18:05, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

I have blocked this anonymous user account for 1 week after another instance of adding useless data to Wikiquote (this time adding nonsense to Requested entries). These blocks will just get longer and longer if the person using this IP address does not create and edit Wikiquote articles based on its policies and goals. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:19, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Bad "editer"
An editor using this IP address recently asked:
 * Jeff the guy that blocked me i need to know are you calling me a bad editer???

(I will arbitrarily assume this person is male, so I can more easily refer to "him". Apologies if this is not correct.) This question presumably arose because of a signature I added to his posting at User talk:UDScott, since he failed to sign his own posting (a habit that he is apparently prone to do). I was, in fact, ironically referring to myself as a "apparently one of the 'real bad editers'" as a contrast to his comment on UDScott's page that "UD and Moshe are the only real good editers" [ sic ]. To me, misspelling the word "editor" is fairly succinct evidence that the phrase may apply to its author. I wasn't so much calling this editor bad as I was implicitly pointing out his habit of demonstrating this himself by his edits.

But if the question is being raised, I'll also point out that: I continue to believe that this editor has good intentions, but it's hard to work with someone who ignores suggestions, policies, practices, and outright pleas to work with the community. I hope that he will attempt to discuss specific questions with myself or other experienced wiki editors, follow suggestions, and read helpful information available to all editors in order to contribute useful material to Wikiquote.
 * Spelling is not his strong suit. (E.g., "Question it if its free", "death and unsattisfaction".)
 * Nearly every one of his posts is stream-of-consciousness, without punctuation or sentence capitalization. (E.g., "Watson from Sherlock Holmes man the page is messy cleanup!".) If a person spoke this way, they wouldn't be understood. Writing clearly is very important in this medium.
 * Some postings are so convoluted and fragmentary that one must struggle to discern the entire meaning of them. (E.g., "Jeff Kim talked and that quoted her in ANTM KIM should get credit like anyone else huh!".)
 * From a wiki point of view, the apparent refusal to address the issues being brought up on this talk page suggests an uncooperative attitude that does not encourage one to think of someone as a "good editor".

I would also recommend he register a user name, which requires no personal information (the email address can be left blank), making a user name more private than an IP address which can be traced to a provider. (Besides, it's quite awkward communicating with someone through an IP address, because they change users frequently, and it's rude to other users of an IP address to accumulate discussions on its talk page.)

Above all, I would ask — PLEASE — that he sign his talk-page postings by adding four tildes ( ~ ) to the end of his text, which Wikiquote will automatically convert to a signature with a timestamp. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:46, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

jeff ud or moshe or whoever judge me if you will i'am truely sorry... sorry.

Fit Finlay
I see that you created an article on Irish pro wrestler Dave "Fit" Finlay, but instead of finding some relatively meaningful quotes — e.g., the slogan-like ones cited in the Wikipedia article — you added what appears to be random statements (or possibly more made-up quotes, based on your other edits). I recommend that, if you wish to stop having your articles nominated for deletion, you do a little research to acquire some useful quotes. If a person is notable enough for Wikiquote, they almost always have a corresponding Wikipedia article, which often includes quotes. This is a very easy way to start your research.

Furthermore, people who create and edit articles have the responsibility to establish a quotee as notable, and this is usually and easily done by adding a link to the quotee's Wikipedia article. (You can edit the current version of this new article to see how I've done this. You might also read How to edit a page for more information on links.) I hope you will make an effort to establish the legitimacy and interest of your subjects by doing these things, so that we can avoid nominating for deleteion articles that otherwise look like nonsense.

Please note that the Wikiquote community, including the editors who frequently nominate apparent nonsense and vanity articles for deletion, are not required to do this research for you. I've helped fill in some details on your articles, but there's only so much I'll do without any apparent effort on a user's part to learn policies and good practices before I'll stop bothering and just support article deletions. My philosophy, which is shared by many of the most active editors here, is that any article that holds so little interest for the community that even the creator can't be bothered to make it minimally useful, can be deleted without harm until someone who is willing to do some simple, basic work comes along and creates a decent article. I beg you to try to make an effort here. Thank you for your cooperation. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:01, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Jeff i will get off your back if you get off mine... thanks and thanks for fit and marty wright aka boogeyman

 * It's not a question of getting off your back. If you continue to expect other people to do your work, don't be surprised if they stop doing it and just vote to delete the meaningless stub articles you create. What we're asking you to do is not only incredibly easy to do, it's something that a huge number of registered and anonymous editors do every day without being asked. We've devoted far too much effort to trying to encourage you to cooperate already. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:31, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Asinine creations
Stop asking other people to clean up and improve your asinine creations. Do some actual work beforehand if you have any interest in these articles, and stop creating more work for other people. ~ Achilles † 23:30, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Blocking
After a number of people have repeatedly warned you to stop creating useless articles, I've blocked you for a week. Once that time is over, please learn how to properly contribute to wikiquote before resuming. ~ UDScott 17:27, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Wikiquote exists for the collecting of notable quotations of famous people and famous works. When people are not interested in responsibly contributing to the development of the project incidents of their deliberate vandalism can result in IP addresses being blocked from editing. ~ Kalki 14:54, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Voltare was someone else for some reason here in Portland, Maine people take the opertunatine to screw up sorry for all the trouble ! 169.244.143.115 14:53, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Join Me in Death quote
An editor using this IP address recently created an article titled Would you die for me?, which actually contained a single 3-line (and apparently inaccurate) quote from the song "Join Me in Death", by Finnish band HIM. (Worse yet, neither the originally "quoted" lines nor the correct lines are the title, making this article title useless.) After a VFD for this article, this quote (corrected, based on a lyrics site) was merged with Lyrics, which is a Wikiquote theme article for pithy excerpts from songs mostly for groups and artists who do not have a suitable quote article themselves. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:55, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

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James Monroe

James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat and Founding Father who served as the 5th president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, Monroe was the last president of the Virginia dynasty and the Republican Generation; his presidency coincided with the Era of Good Feelings, concluding the First Party System era of American politics. He is perhaps best known for issuing the Monroe Doctrine, a policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas while effectively asserting U.S. dominance, empire, and hegemony in the hemisphere. He also served as governor of Virginia, a member of the United States Senate, U.S. ambassador to France and Britain, the 7th Secretary of State, and the 8th Secretary of War.

Quotes

 * I do therefore recommend the third Thursday in August next, as a convenient day to be set apart for the devout purposes of rendering to the Sovereign of the Universe and the Benefactor of mankind, the public homage due to his holy attributes; of acknowledging the transgressions which might justly provoke the manifestations of His divine displeasures; of seeking His merciful forgiveness, His assistance in the great duties of repentance and amendment; and especially of offering fervent supplications, that in the present season of calamity and war, He would take the American People under his peculiar care and protection; that he would guide their public councils, animate their patriotism, and bestow His blessing on their arms; that He would inspire all nations with a love of justice and of concord, and with a reverence for the unerring precept of our holy religion, to do to others as they would require others to do to them; and finally, that, turning the hearts of our enemies from the violence and injustice which sway their councils against us, He would hasten a restoration of the blessings of Peace.
 * Proclamation – Humiliation and Prayer (20 August 1812)

 * It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.
 * First Inaugural Address (4 March 1817)

 * National honor is the national property of the highest value.
 * First Inaugural Address (4 March 1817)

 * Preservation, improvement, and civilization of the native inhabitants. The Hunter state can exist only in the vast uncultivated desert. It yields to the more dense compact form of and greater force of civilized population; and of right it ought to yield, for the earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from the wants of others more then is necessary for their own support and comfort.
 * Message to Congress (1817)

 * The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable.
 * Message to Congress (December 1822)

 * Our relation to Europe, is pretty much the same, as it was in the commencement of the French Revolution. Can we, in any form, take a bolder attitude in regard to it, in favor of liberty, than we then did? Can we afford greater aid to that cause, by assuming any such attitude, than we do now, by the form of our example?
 * Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1822)

 * What was the origin of our slave population? The evil commenced when we were in our Colonial state, but acts were passed by our Colonial Legislature, prohibiting the importation, of more slaves, into the Colony. These were rejected by the Crown. We declared our independence, and the prohibition of a further importation was among the first acts of state sovereignty. Virginia was the first state which instructed her delegates to declare the colonies independent. She braved all dangers. From Quebec to Boston, and from Boston to Savannah, Virginia shed the blood of her sons. No imputation then can be cast upon her in this matter. She did all that was in her power to do, to prevent the extension of slavery, and to mitigate its evils.
 * Speech in the Virginia State Convention for altering the Constitution (2 November 1829)

The Monroe Doctrine (2 December 1823)

 * The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power.
 * The Monroe Doctrine.

 * In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.

 * We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the Governments who have declared their independence and maintain it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.

Quotes about Monroe

 * The President while not believing it would come to war, was prepared to defend South American Liberty.
 * John Quincy Adams, diary entry

 * A plot by slaves to march on Richmond, Virginia, in 1800, the so-called Gabriel Uprising named after its lead slave, was described by then-governor James Monroe as "strange" and blamed on the French Revolution and the Hispaniola slave uprising from a few years earlier. In other words, the future president and creator of the Monroe Doctrine, which vowed to fight against outsiders trying to meddle in our hemisphere, suddenly found these outsiders useful to explain slave unrest in his own state. Blaming the French Revolution and the slave rebellion in Hispaniola is Monroe's version of blaming Marilyn Manson and violent video games. The Gabriel Uprising was finally "put down" when twenty-seven slaves were publicly hanged. The awful truth about the Gabriel Uprising is that no one even knows if a real plot existed. In fact, it probably didn't. But fear of an uprising was real, particularly among a population that refused to face the real cause. Indeed, the intense fear of insurrection seems to match the intensity of the collective denial about its cause.
 * Mark Ames, Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond (2005), p. 46

 * In 1824, James Monroe stated, "There is no object which as a people we can desire which we do not possess or which is not within our reach." Here we can see the tension identified by Kotef as well as Hardt and Negri-a conception of sovereignty as "an open, expansive project operating on unbounded terrain" that exists alongside a "fantasy of closure and enclosure," involving "clearly demarcated territory, sealed within a border, which is a container of the people." Here we see that for certain subjects, movement is a manifestation of liberty that should be maximized. While for others, movement is something that must be tightly managed and regulated.
 * Cristina Beltrán Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy (2020) p 39
 * The British Government under Canning offered to co-operate with the United States in stopping the extension of this threatening principle of intervention to the New World. Britain announced that she recognised the sovereignty of the Latin republics in South America. Meanwhile President Monroe acted independently and issued his message to Congress proclaiming the principles later known as the Monroe Doctrine. This famous Doctrine, as has been related, was at once a warning against interference on the part of any European Powers in the New World and a statement of the intention of America to play no part in European politics. With this valedictory message America concentrated upon her own affairs. A new generation of politicians was rising. The old veterans, of the days of the Constitution had most of them vanished from the scene, though Jefferson and Madison lingered on in graceful retirement in their Virginian homes.
 * Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume IV: The Great Democracies (1958), p. 102

 * Monroe's greatest asset was his disarming, warm personality. Although conceding that Monroe lacked brilliance and a nimble mind, biographer Harry Ammon pointed out that he "had a rare ability of putting men at ease by his courtesy, his lack of condescension, his frankness, and by what his contemporaries looked upon as his essential goodness and kindness of heart." Monroe at least partially overcame an early shyness but remained markedly low-key and reserved, especially among strangers. Acutely sensitive to criticism, he at times took offense where none was intended. Rather than lash back at his critics, however, he usually bottled up his feelings. "Operating as he did with such an elevated sense of his own integrity," Ammon has written, "he could not easily adjust when old friends failed to approve his conduct."
 * William A. DeGregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1984), p. 73

 * In 1801, President Jefferson aptly described the new settler-state's intentions for horizontal and vertical continental expansion, stating: "However our present interests may restrain us within our own limits, it is impossible not to look forward to distant times, when our rapid multiplication will expand itself beyond those limits and cover the whole northern, if not the southern continent, with a people speaking the same language, governed in similar form by similar laws." This vision of manifest destiny found form a few years later in the Monroe Doctrine, signaling the intention of annexing or dominating former Spanish colonial territories in the Americas and the Pacific, which would be put into practice during the rest of the century.
 * Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014)

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Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862), nicknamed "Old Kinderhook", was the eighth president of the United States of America. He was the first president born after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the first not of British descent, and the only U.S. president whose first language was not English (it was Dutch).

Quotes

 * There is a power in public opinion in this country -and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers- which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.
 * As quoted by William A. DeGregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1984) p. 133

Inaugural address (1837)

 * Martin Van Buren's Inaugural Address (March 4, 1837)

 * The practice of all my predecessors imposes on me an obligation I cheerfully fulfill—to accompany the first and solemn act of my public trust with an avowal of the principles that will guide me in performing it and an expression of my feelings on assuming a charge so responsible and vast.
 * How imperious, then, is the obligation imposed upon every citizen, in his own sphere of action, whether limited or extended, to exert himself in perpetuating a condition of things so singularly happy.
 * From a small community we have risen to a people powerful in numbers and in strength; but with our increase has gone hand in hand the progress of just principles.
 * I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
 * All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.
 * Present excitement will at all times magnify present dangers, but true philosophy must teach us that none more threatening than the past can remain to be overcome; and we ought (for we have just reason) to entertain an abiding confidence in the stability of our institutions and an entire conviction that if administered in the true form, character, and spirit in which they were established they are abundantly adequate to preserve to us and our children the rich blessings already derived from them, to make our beloved land for a thousand generations that chosen spot where happiness springs from a perfect equality of political rights.
 * In receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided to my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. But united as I have been in his counsels, a daily witness of his exclusive and unsurpassed devotion to his country's welfare, agreeing with him in sentiments which his countrymen have warmly supported, and permitted to partake largely of his confidence, I may hope that somewhat of the same cheering approbation will be found to attend upon my path. For him I but express with my own the wishes of all, that he may yet long live to enjoy the brilliant evening of his well-spent life; and for myself, conscious of but one desire, faithfully to serve my country, I throw myself without fear on its justice and its kindness. Beyond that I only look to the gracious protection of the Divine Being whose strengthening support I humbly solicit, and whom I fervently pray to look down upon us all. May it be among the dispensations of His providence to bless our beloved country with honors and with length of days. May her ways be ways of pleasantness and all her paths be peace!

Quotes about Van Buren

 * There were wild scenes at Washington at the inauguration of the new President, dubbed by his opponent Adams as “the brawler from Tennessee.” But to the men of the West Jackson was their General, marching against the political monopoly of the moneyed classes. The complications of high politics caused difficulties for the backwoodsman. His simple mind, suspicious of his opponents, made him open to influence by more partisan and self-seeking politicians. In part be was guided by Martin Van Buren, his Secretary of State. But he relied even more heavily for advice on political cronies of his own choosing, who were known as the “Kitchen Cabinet,” because they were not office-holders. Jackson was led to believe that his first duty was to cleanse the stables of the previous regime. His dismissal of a large number of civil servants brought the spoils system, long prevalent in many states, firmly into the Federal machine.
 * Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume IV: The Great Democracies (1958),
 * The union of Western and Southern politicians had had their revenge upon the North. The Radicalism of the frontier had won a great political contest. Jackson’s occupation of the Presidency had finally broken the “era of good feelings” which had followed the war with Britain, and by his economic policy he had split the old Republican Party of Jefferson. The Radicalism of the West was looked upon with widespread suspicion throughout the Eastern states, and Jackson’s official appointments had not been very happy. The election in 1836 of Jackson’s lieutenant, Van Buren, meant the continuation of Jacksonian policy, while the old General himself returned in triumph to. his retirement in Tennessee. The first incursions of the West into high politics had revealed the slumbering forces of democracy on the frontier and shown the inexperience of their leaders in such affairs.
 * Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume IV: The Great Democracies (1958),

 * Accessible and a master of detail, Van Buren received advice from scores of obscure citizens and often dealt with matters that other Presidents might have left to subordinates. He dealt with army engineer Thomas Warner, for example, who went over Secretary of War Joel Poinsett's head to complain about being dismissed. Sometimes Van Buren let sentiment intrude on his decisions; when William Leggett was dying of tuberculosis, Van Buren appointed him agent to Guatemala so that he could enjoy his last months in a warm climate. And as before his tact helped in handling delicate situations, especially in appeasing Eaton when he was withdrawn from Spain. The skills that were evident in Albany were still at work in the White House.
 * Donald B. Cole, Martin Van Buren and the American Political System (1984), p. 343

 * An Englishman who visited Van Buren's White House failed to notice any luxury or ostentation. Member of Parliament James Silk Buckingham, who attended Van Buren's open house in March 1838, wrote that the White House was "greatly inferior in size and splendor to the country residences of most of the [ British] nobility," and the furniture was "far from elegant of costly." "The whole air of the mansion," he said, was "unostentatious... without parade or displays,... well adapted to the simplicity and economy... of the republican institutions of the country." The servants wore no livery and Van Buren himself was dressed in a "plain suit of black." Buckingham was impressed that "every one present acted as though he felt himself to be on a footing of equality with every other person." As Buckingham noted, Van Buren in 1838 followed Andrew Jackson's policy of allowing anyone at all to attend a White House reception, and stationed no guards at the door. Van Buren himself walked to and from church alone and often rode horseback unaccompanied. A short time later, however, another British traveler, Captain Frederick Marryat, noted that Van Buren had taken a step that struck at "the very roots of their boasted equality" by stationing police at the door to "prevent the intrusion of any improper person." It was Van Buren's concession to the changing times.
 * Donald B. Cole, Martin Van Buren and the American Political System (1984), p. 345-346

 * Although democrats tried to blame the defeat on fraud, hallucination, excessive democracy, and the Mormon Church, none of these was responsible. There were more fundamental reasons for the defeat. It would have been a miracle if the Democrats had been able to survive the depression that had gripped the nation ever since Van Buren took office. Even though the Liberty party polled barely 7,000 votes, Van Buren's proslavery policies had alienated Northerners and contributed to the loss of six states that Van Buren had carried in 1836.
 * Donald B. Cole, Martin Van Buren and the American Political System (1984), p. 373

 * Van Buren himself bore much of the responsibility. In the election he was defeated by a political system and by political techniques that he more than anyone else had developed. Whig managers such as Weed and Stevens used methods that Van Buren and the Regency had perfected in New York. In 1836, he had won partly by adjusting to change better than his opponents had, but in 1840, the Whigs not the Democrats took advantage of what was new. With a national two-party system and nationwide means of communication, a national campaign with a national message was needed. With their log cabins, Tippecanoe slogans, and parades, the Whigs found the message that could produce votes. In Philip Hone's words, the "hurrah [was] heard and felt in every part of the United States." The Whigs allowed the common man to participate in their campaigns, whereas the Democrats, who had based their previous campaigns on the common man, discouraged participation. Harrison, not Van Buren, broke with tradition and went out on the campaign trail for himself. Harrison, not Van Buren, replaced Andrew Jackson as the popular hero in the eyes of the people. Even though Van Buren had created a national political party, he did not run a national campaign in 1840, but devoted most of his attention to New York as he had done in 1838, but not in 1824. Instead of adjusting his republicanism as he had in the past, he remained in 1840 chained to the Jeffersonian tradition.
 * Donald B. Cole, Martin Van Buren and the American Political System (1984), p. 373-374

 * Van Buren's personality played a part in his downfall. As Jabez Hammond observed, Van Buren lacked "those fascinating traits" and the "halo of military glory" that had made Jackson a successful President. The lack of charisma had not been a liability in state politics, but in a national election, popular appeal meant much. Hammond wrote that "the people of this country [were] fond of novelties," and Van Buren's bland personality gave them nothing to make them forget the depression. In addition, Hammond believed that Van Buren had lost his two genuinely exciting qualities- his "adroitness and skill"- during his years in the White House. This change had become apparent in the way Van Buren had run his presidency, especially in his preoccupation with the independent treasury and his failure to use patronage effectively. The skills and talents that opened the door to the White House did not last long enough to keep him there.
 * Donald B. Cole, Martin Van Buren and the American Political System (1984), p. 374

 * The one characteristic for which Van Buren was famous was the one that suggested perhaps he was not always under control. This was his political ruthlessness. He was ruthless enough to stick with William Harris Crawford long after the Georgian had suffered a disabling stroke. He kept plotting to keep John Quincy Adams from the presidency in 1825. He cleared out most of the Adams postmasters in New York in 1829. As the stories about him spread, he acquired the nicknames of "Little Magician" and "Sly Fox." His reputation and political skill gave him a place in history, but he hated the image and sought steadily to be something else. He might have been a more successful President if he had been more willing to exploit his reputation.
 * Donald B. Cole, Martin Van Buren and the American Political System (1984), p. 432

 * American electoral politics were forever transformed by the Whigs' imaginative presidential campaign that year. The election of 1840 was a sweeping Whig victory as Harrison easily won the presidency and both branches of Congress came under Whig control. Voter turnout was phenomenal. Roughly 80 percent of the eligible male electorate went to the polls, energized by massive parades, outdoor rallies, campaign songs, and circus-like hoopla never before witnessed by the American public. Gimmickry and humbug became hallmarks of the campaign. A widely used tactic was the rolling of large leather balls festooned with catchy slogans such as "Van, Van, Van- Van's a Used Up Man" across the rural landscape and through villages and towns.
 * Edward P. Crapol, John Tyler: The Accidental President (2006) p. 17

 * What have I to say against Martin Van Buren? He is an artful, cunning, intriguing, selfish, speculating lawyer, who, by holding lucrative offices for more than half his life, has contrived to amass a princely fortune... His fame is unknown to the history of our country, except as a most adroit political manager and successful officeholder... Office and money have been the gods of his idolatry; and at their shrines has the ardent worship of his heart been devoted... He can lay no claim to pre-eminent services as a statesman; nor has he ever given any evidences of superior talent, except as a political electioneer and intriguer.
 * Davy Crockett, as quoted in Martin Van Buren and the Democratic Party (1959) by Robert V. Remini, p. 1

 * Van Buren basically was optimistic, cheerful, quick to smile and laugh. From an early age he was an engaging conversationalist. In politics, however, he preferred to let others talk about specific issues rather than to expound his own views. In drawing others out while keeping his own opinions closely guarded, he grained a reputation as a crafty partisan who, as one colleague asserted, "rowed to his object with muffled oars." His rather unflattering nicknames, the Red Fox of Kinderhook and the Little Magician, reflected this image. He spoke cautiously, often in carefully worded phrases that left listeners in doubt about his true feelings. Van Buren was ambitious, but he was also a man of principle.
 * William A. DeGregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1984), p. 123

 * Canadian insurgents led by William L. Mackenzie of Ontario had been waging revolution against British rule. Thwarted in an attempt to capture Toronto, the rebels fell back to Navy Island on the Niagara River, where they established a government-in-exile committed to an independent Canada. Americans sympathetic to the revolution transported supplies to the island on the steamship Caroline. In December 1837 Canadian militia, on orders from Britain, seized the Caroline in U.S. waters, set it afire, and sent it hurtling over Niagara Falls in flames. One American was killed and several injured. In a message to Congress, President Van Buren denounced the incident as "an outrage of a most aggravated character... producing the strongest feelings of resentment on the part of our citizens in the neighborhood and on the whole border line." Although he ordered American forces to the region, he resisted cries for war with Britain and issued a proclamation of neutrality regarding the Canadian rebellion. In 1840 a Canadian, Alexander McLeod, was arrested in New York for the murder of the American killed in the Caroline affair but was later acquitted. British-American relations, aggravated further by the Aroostook War, remained strained until the signing of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty in 1842.
 * William A. DeGregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1984), p. 131

 * The Border between Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick had never been defined. Both the United States and Canada claimed some 12,000 square miles along the Aroostook River. The "war," though bloodless, heated up in February 1839 when Canadian authorities arrested American Rufus McIntire for attempting to expel Canadians from the disputed region. MicIntire had been acting on orders from Maine officials. Both sides immediately massed their militias along the frontier and sought support from their parent governments. As in the Caroline affair, President Van Buren resisted cries for war and instead dispatched General Winfield Scott on a peace mission to the region. Scott arranged a truce, effectively defusing the crisis pending the settlement of the border issue by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty in 1842.
 * William A. DeGregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1984), p. 131

 * July 24, 1862, 2 A.M., Lindenwald estate, Kinderhook, New York. During his last months, Van Buren suffered a severe attack of bronchial asthma and weakened steadily. After exchanging a few last words with his sons, he fell unconsciosu and, in the early morning hours of July 24, 1862, died of heart failure. At his request, no bells rang at his funeral, conducted at the Dutch Reformed Church in Kinderhook by the Reverend Alfonzo Potter, Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania, and the Reverend Benjamin Van Zandt, retired pastor of the church. From the church, a long funeral procession of some 80 carriages under escort of the Kinderhook fire department slowly made its way to the village cemetery, where the rosewood coffin was placed in a protective wooden container and lowered to a grave beside that of his wife in the enclosed Van Buren family plot. In his last will and testament, executed in 1860, Van Buren divided his estate, valued at about $225,000, among his three surviving sons.
 * William A. DeGregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1984), p. 133

 * But, though defeated, Mr. Van Buren was not conquered. His last message contained a calm and dignified retrospect of his administration. He exhibited a clear view of our foreign relations, and showed them to be in a most happy, honorable and prosperous condition. He gave a history of the embarrassments which the government had been obliged to encounter, in consequence of the failure of the banks to perform their engagements. He insisted that the course he had recommended was the only one that could have been adopted, except that of incorporating a bank of the United States; he denounced that measure as unconstitutional, and as one which had been repeatedly repudiated by the people of the nation. He urged economy in the public expenditures; he showed that expenditures for ordinary purposes had been greatly diminished during his administration; he contended that the revenue of the government, without an increase of taxes, would be sufficient to defray all the necessary expenses; and he protested against the creation of a national debt. Although he left the enemy in possession of the field of battle, he himself retired from the arena in the spirit and with the dignity of a conqueror.
 * Jabez Hammond, referring to Van Buren in the aftermath of the U.S. Presidential Election of 1840, as quoted by Ted Widmer in Martin Van Buren (2005), p. 171

 * I... believe him not only deserving of my confidence but the confidence of the Nation... He... is not only well qualified, but desires to fill the highest office in the gift of the people, who in him, will find a true friend and safe repository of their rights and liberty.
 * Andrew Jackson in 1829, as quoted by William A. DeGregorio in The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1984) p. 133

 * Martin Van Buren does not belong on anybody's list of great presidents, but he certainly belongs at the top of a sublist ranking presidents for diplomacy. Not only did he keep America out of war, but he did it twice, first with Mexico and then with England. Historians tend to glorify strong presidents, and nothing makes a president stronger than being a wartime leader. In a 1961 collection of scholarly articles on "America's Ten Greatest Presidents," for instance, half the presidents were men who had led the country into war. Yet managing to keep out of war can sometimes be an even greater achievement than rattling the war drums.
 * Seymour Morris Jr., American History Revisited: 200 Startling Facts That Never Made It Into The Textbooks (2010), p. 150

 * Going against the wishes of people in New York and Maine cost Van Buren reelection in 1840. A few of his closest advisers even went so far as to advise him to start a war to win back the war vote and distract public attention from the administration's difficulties, but Van Buren refused.
 * Seymour Morris Jr., American History Revisited: 200 Startling Facts That Never Made It Into The Textbooks (2010), p. 152

 * This democratic President's house is furnished in a style of magnificence and regal splendor that might well satisfy a monarch... This is that plain, simple, humble, hard-headed democrat whom [the people] have been taught to believe is at the head of the democratic party... He may call himself a democrat- such, no doubt, he professes to be- but then there is a great difference between names and things.
 * Charles Ogle, Representative of Pennsylvania, in 1840, as quoted by William A. DeGregorio in The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1984) p. 133

 * Martin Van Buren was born in the little village of Kinderhook, in Columbia County, New York, on December 5, 1782. The son of a tavernkeeper, he received his earliest education helping his father manage the tavern where he watched the patrons eat and drink and listened to their conversation- political and otherwise. Observers later commented on his great knowledge and understanding of human nature; undoubtedly much of it was acquired during these early years. He went to the village academy for a formal education, and then to the law offices, successively, of Francis Silvester and William P. Van Ness. In 1803 he began the practice of law and slowly built a reputation for himself as a hard-working and resourceful lawyer.
 * Robert V. Remini, Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party (1959), p. 2

 * To stay alive in the New York political world one had to be clever, shrewd, and sometimes unscrupulous. It did not take the intelligent young lawyer Van Buren very long to learn what he must do to survive. Within ten years after his arrival in Albany as a senator, Van Buren gained control of the state's Republican organization. His success was due partly to his personality as a leader, partly to his ability to conceive and execute intricate plans to weaken his opponents, partly to his above-average talents as a speaker and writer, and partly to his genius for political organization.
 * Robert V. Remini, Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party (1959), p. 3

 * Martin Van Buren was probably one of the most charming men of his age. Without that charm, that ingratiating, refined and affable manner, he could never have succeeded as well as he did. Men and women vied for his companionship, and maneuvered to get him to accept invitations to their dinners. He was courteous to all- which some misinterpreted- and possessed the "high art of blending dignity with ease and suavity." His mild, open, and sociable disposition induced one observer to write that he was "as polished and captivating a person in the social circle as America has ever known..." Although endowed with no exceptional wit himself, he had a sense of humor and a keen appreciation of the humorous.
 * Robert V. Remini, Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party (1959), p. 3

 * For all the noise and head generated by the 1840 campaign, its most lasting legacy may have been one of the shortest words in the English language. In the spring of 1839, the phrase "OK" began to circulate in Boston as shorthand for "oll korrect", a slangy way of saying "all right." Early in 1840, Van Buren's supporters began to use the trendy expression as a way to identify their candidate, whom they labored to present as "Old Kinderhook," perhaps in imitation of Jackson's Old Hickory. Van Buren even wrote "OK" next to his signature. It spread like wildfire, and to this day it is a universal symbol of something elemental in the American character- informality, optimism, efficiency, call it what you will. It is spoken seven times a day by the average citizen, two billion utterances overall. And, of course, it goes well beyond our borders; if there is a single sound America has contributed to the esperanto of global communication, this is it. It is audible everywhere- in a taxicab in Paris, in a cafe in Instanbul, in the languid early seconds of the Beatles' "Revolution," when John Lennon steps up to the microphone and arrestingly calls the meeting to order. There are worse legacies that a defeated presidential candidate could claim.
 * Ted Widmer, Martin Van Buren (2005), p. 140

 * In truth, Van Buren was defeated, and badly. He would never hold elective office again; his career ended as prematurely as it had begun. The winds of fortune blow very strong in American politics. But despite a presidency that was disappointing in many ways, he could return to New York satisfied that he had remained true to his understanding of Democracy, imperfect as that may have been, and that most others would have fared worse under the difficult circumstances he had faced. In fact, many were about to, as the United States entered the dreariest presidential season in its history, a twenty-year drought that did not end until the watershed of the 1860 election.
 * Ted Widmer, Martin Van Buren (2005), p. 141

 * Van Buren shivered through the same damp inaugural ceremony that elevated and killed William Henry Harrison, then made his way north, to the home state he had not lived in for twenty years. He arrived by ship at Manhattan, and found a surprise that must have warmed his jaded heart. A huge number of the city's poor came out in the rain to greet him, conscious that, for all his imperfections, this New Yorker had somewhere represented their interests in a government where they had precious few allies.
 * Ted Widmer, Martin Van Buren (2005), p. 141

 * Van Buren will remain one of our lesser-known presidents, for reasons that he would understand. His presidency produced no lasting monument of social legislation, sustained several disastrous reverses, and ended with ignominious defeat after one short term. There will never be an animatronic Van Buren entertaining children at Disneyland alongside Abraham Lincoln. But still, he lives wherever people find gated communities shut to them. He lives particularly in the places far from the presidential stage where democracy does its best work- in the back rooms of union halls, fire stations, immigrant social clubs, granges, and taverns like the one he grew up in. Or even far from American shores, where courageous men and women are risking their lives every day to form opposition parties against the wishes of their governments.
 * Ted Widmer, Martin Van Buren (2005), p. 170-171

 * He does not need fame, or pity, but Martin Van Buren is worthy of a sober second thought. Quite simply, it's antidemocratic to expect all of our leaders to be great, or to pretend that they are once they are in office and using the trappings of the presidency for theatrical effect. It goes without saying that we need our Lincolns and Washingtons- the United States would not exist without them. But we need our Van Burens, too- the schemers and sharps working to defend people from all backgrounds against their natural predators. For democracy to stay realistic, we need to remain realistic about our leaders and what they can and cannot do. In other words, we need books about the not-quite-heroic. Van Buren is history, and this book has reached its terminus, but, as Kafka tells us, the work is never done.
 * Ted Widmer, Martin Van Buren (2005), p. 171

 * Politically, however, the Panic of 1837 had an enormous impact. It raised urgent questions about economic development and, in close connection, the relationship between the Treasury and the banking and currency of the country. What were the effects of English credit on the cycle of economic growth in the United States? Had the banks, by an overindulgence of the "spirit of enterprise," precipitated the pattern of overreaction and contradiction? Or were Jackson's policies chiefly to blame? Would the new president sustain these policies of reverse them? Temporarily, at least, the economy recovered from the Panic of 1837, but Van Buren's political response involved ecisions that gave basic shape to his entire presidency.
 * Major L. Wilson, The Presidency of Martin Van Buren (1984), p. 43

 * Van Buren is probably the first real politician in America elected to the presidency. Unlike his predecessors, he never did anything great; he never made a great speech, he never wrote a great document, he never won a great battle. He simply was the most politically astute operator that the United States had ever seen.
 * Gordon Wood, interview with World Socialist Website (28 November 2019)

 * In the 1830s, under Andrew Jackson and then his successor Martin Van Buren, the military moved against the Indians in the southeastern United States in what was officially called, in the title of the law authorizing it, Indian Removal. Today we'd call it ethnic cleansing.
 * Howard Zinn, Truth Has a Power of Its Own (2022)

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John Tyler

John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth (1841) vice president of the United States, and the tenth (1841–1845) president of the United States. He was the second president born after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and the first to assume the office of president following the death of his predecessor.

Quotes

 * Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette—the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.
 * Message to the House (18 December 1816).

 * Let it, then, be henceforth proclaimed to the world, that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.
 * Funeral oration for Thomas Jefferson (11 July 1826).

 * Patronage is the sword and cannon by which war may be made on the liberty of the human race.
 * Speech in Congress (24 February 1834) against the policies of Andrew Jackson.

 * I can never consent to being dictated to as to what I shall or shall not do. I, as President, shall be responsible for my administration. I hope to have your hearty co-operation in carrying out its measures. So long as you see fit to do this, I shall be glad to have you with me. When you think otherwise, your resignations will be accepted.
 * Cabinet meeting (1841), as retold by John Alexander Tyler.

 * So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
 * First annual message to Congress (1 June 1841).

 * Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.
 * First annual message to Congress (1 June 1841).

 * In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life.
 * Farewell remarks (1845).

 * If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.
 * Letter to Robert Tyler (12 March 1848).

Quotes about Tyler

 * Tyler had all the dignified charm and grace of the soft, warm manner typical of the well-bred Southerner of the early nineteenth century. He mixed readily with strangers of his class. Around working people, however, he became a different person- ill at ease, aloof, unresponsive. Some took this for vanity. But, as biographer Robert Seager pointed out, "What appeared to be vanity was an ingrained shyness and discomfort in the presence of people with dirty fingernails... He never had any experience with these people, and he was too diffident to gain any."
 * William A. DeGregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1984), p. 149

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Matt Damon

Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American film actor and screenwriter.

Quotes

 * It was offered to me. When Spielberg says jump, bitches say how high?
 * On why he took the role in Saving Private Ryan, in ViewAskew.com WWW Boards (17 March 1998)

 * I mean, I did ride the Paris subway in an attempt to get pick-pocketed in order to see how exactly they did it. My buddy was videoing the whole thing. No one picked my pocket. We got bolder and bolder as we went, but it didn’t pan out for us.
 * "Matt Damon Discusses Ocean's 12", About.com (8 December 2004)

 * I think there is really good chance that Sarah Palin could be president and I think that is a scary thing, because I don't know anything about her. I don't think in eight weeks I'm going to know anything about her. I know she was a mayor of a really, really small town, and she is governor of Alaska for less than two years. I just don't understand. I think the pick was made for political purposes, but in terms of governance it is a disaster. You do the actuary tables, you know there is one out of three chance or more that McCain doesn't survive his first term, and it will be President Palin. It really … I was talking about it earlier, it is like a really bad Disney movie, you know. The hockey mom, I'm just a hockey mom from Alaska, and she is the president. She is like facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. You know it is absurd. It is totally absurd, and I don't understand why more people aren't talking about how absurd it is. It is a really terrifying possibility. The fact that we have gotten this far, and with that close this being a reality is crazy. I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago. That's an important. … I want to know that. I really do. Because she's going to have the nuclear codes, you know. I want to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago or whether she banned books or tried to ban books. I mean, we can't have that.
 * Associated Press interview (10 September 2008) / Associated Press interview (10 September 2008)

 * My thoughts on veganism are that it’s a wonderful thing to do. I just can’t do it. I tried. Casey Affleck and I made a movie in the desert in Argentina like 12 years ago and he’s a vegan and I tried to eat vegan and I lasted like two days. I just, I literally can’t do it. And I know…that might be bad.
 * "Matt Damon on Veganism: ‘Do as I Say, Not as I Do’", Ecorazzi.com (22 October 2013)

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Dana White

Dana White (born July 28, 1969) is the current President of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, a mixed martial arts organization based in the United States.

Quotes

 * It isn't all about signing autographs and banging broads.
 * Dana White, The Ultimate Fighter, Season One of The Ultimate Fighter (2005).

 * My point is, any of you wanna win this fucking show, move on, take those fucking people out of the equation.
 * Dana White, The Ultimate Fighter, Season Nineteen, Episode Six, Fight to Live (2014).

Dana White and the future of UFC (2004)
Wickert, Marc. 2004. Dana White and the future of UFC. fighttimes.com

 * Actually, the father of mixed martial arts, if you will, was Bruce Lee. If you look at the way Bruce Lee trained, the way he fought, and many of the things he wrote, he said the perfect style was no style. You take a little something from everything. You take the good things from every different discipline, use what works, and you throw the rest away.

 * I boxed in the amateurs before getting into submission fighting and got hooked. Actually, I owned three boxing gyms in Vegas. I trained and managed fighters and had a sports management company. One day I met Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell, who I started representing, and I got into this huge contract negotiation with Bob Meyerwitz, the former owner of Tito Ortiz’s contract. Through that, Bob and I developed a mutual respect for one another.

 * Lorenzo Fertitta was a good friend of mine since we were kids. He and I were going to do something together in boxing anyway, so I called Lorenzo - he was down in Miami - and I said, ‘You know what, I just found out the UFC is for sale. What do you think?’ And he said, ‘That’s interesting.'

 * No doubt about it. The reality is, there’s nothing fake, obviously, like pro wrestling, and it is the most hard-core, full-contact event in the world.

 * UFC is also safer than boxing because of the tap-out rule. I'll give you an example: when Roberto Duran said, 'No mas' (meaning 'no more' in Spanish) because he couldn't continue and knew he was hurt, he was ridiculed the rest of his career. In UFC, a fighter can tap out if he's in a dangerous position or believes he's going to be seriously injured.

 * UFC is definitely a younger guy’s sport. Our target audience is anywhere from age 17 to 35. And our fighters will be household names. Where I’d like to see it is like it is in Japan right now. We were just over there [on August 10, 2003] with Chuck Liddell, who was representing UFC in a UFC versus PRIDE fight. And he knocked out Alistair Overeem in the first round [3:09] of the PRIDE Grand Prix Elimination tournament. That was awesome, man. Chuck couldn’t leave the place on Monday morning. He went to go shopping, to buy some things for his family, and he was swarmed for forty-five minutes. The mall security had to pull him out of there and throw him in a car. There were thirty seven thousand people at the event, and it was the first time the tournament was shown on free TV. So millions of people saw him fight that night – not only in Japan, but in the US.

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William III of England

William III of England (14 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), also known as William II of Scotland and William of Orange, was a Dutch aristocrat and the Prince of Orange from his birth, King of England and Ireland from 13 February 1689, and King of Scotland from 11 April 1689, in each case until his death.

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 * I think My Self obliged to take Notice, how well the Army there [Ireland] have behaved themselves on all Occasions, and born great Hardships with little Pay, and with so much Patience and Willingness, as could not proceed but from an Affectionate Duty to My Service, and a Zeal for the Protestant Religion.
 * Speech to Parliament (2 October 1690), quoted in His Majesties Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament. On Thursday the 2d day of October 1690 (1690), p. 3

 * Now, as I have neither spared My Person, nor My Pains, to do you all the Good I could; so I doubt not, but if you will as cheerfully do your Parts, it is in your Power to make both Me and your selves Happy, and the Nation Great: And on the other hand it is too plain, by what the French have let you see so lately, that if the present War be not prosecuted with Vigour, no Nation in the World is exposed to greater Danger... It is further Necessary to inform you, That the whole Support of the Confederacy abroad, will absolutely depend upon the Speed and Vigour of your Proceedings in this Session.
 * Speech to Parliament (2 October 1690), quoted in His Majesties Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament. On Thursday the 2d day of October 1690 (1690), pp. 3-4

 * [I]t will well Deserve Your Consideration, Whether We are not defective both in the Number of Our Shipping, and in proper Ports to the Westward, for the better Annoying Our Enemies, and Protecting Our Trade, so Essential to the Welfare of this Kingdom.
 * Speech to Parliament (7 November 1693), quoted in White Kennett, A Complete History of England: With the lives of All the Kings and Queens Thereof; From the Earliest Account of Time, to the Death of His late Majesty King William III. Vol. III (1706), p. 665

 * Upon this Occasion I cannot but take notice of the Courage and Bravery which the English Troops have shewn this last Summer; which I may say has answer'd their highest Character in any Age: And it will not be denied, that without the concurrence of the Valour and Power of England, it were impossible to put a Stop to the Ambition and Greatness of France.
 * Speech to Parliament (23 November 1695), quoted in White Kennett, A Complete History of England: With the lives of All the Kings and Queens Thereof; From the Earliest Account of Time, to the Death of His late Majesty King William III. Vol. III (1706), p. 703

 * I did recommend to the last Parliament the Forming some good Bill for the Encouragement and Increase of Seamen; I hope you will not let this Session pass without doing somewhat in it; and that you will consider of such Laws as may be proper for the advancement of Trade, and will have a particular regard to that of the East-Indies, lest it should be lost to the Nation.
 * Speech to Parliament (23 November 1695), quoted in White Kennett, A Complete History of England: With the lives of All the Kings and Queens Thereof; From the Earliest Account of Time, to the Death of His late Majesty King William III. Vol. III (1706), p. 704

 * Our Naval Force being increased to near double what it was at my Accession to the Crown, the Charge of Maintaining it will be proportionably augmented; and it is certainly necessary for the Interest and Reputation of England, to have always a great Strength at Sea. The Circumstances of Affairs Abroad are such, that I think my self oblig'd to tell you My Opinion, That for the present, England cannot be Safe without a Land Force, and I hope We shall not give those who mean Us Ill, the opportunity of Effecting that, under the Notion of a Peace, which they could not bring to pass by a War.
 * Speech to Parliament (3 December 1697), quoted in White Kennett, A Complete History of England: With the lives of All the Kings and Queens Thereof; From the Earliest Account of Time, to the Death of His late Majesty King William III. Vol. III (1706), p. 741

 * I shall conclude with telling You, That as I have, with the Hazard of every Thing, Rescued your Religion, Laws and Liberties, when they were in the Extremest Danger; so I shall place the Glory of My Reign in Preserving them Entire, and leaving them so to Posterity.
 * Speech to Parliament (3 December 1697), quoted in White Kennett, A Complete History of England: With the lives of All the Kings and Queens Thereof; From the Earliest Account of Time, to the Death of His late Majesty King William III. Vol. III (1706), p. 741

 * [T]he Flourishing of Trade, the Supporting of Credit, and the Quiet of Peoples Minds at home, will depend upon the Opinion they have of their Security; and to preserve to England the Weight and Influence it has at present on the Councils and Affairs Abroad, it will be requisite Europe should see you will not be wanting to your selves.
 * Speech to Parliament (9 December 1699), quoted in White Kennett, A Complete History of England: With the lives of All the Kings and Queens Thereof; From the Earliest Account of Time, to the Death of His late Majesty King William III. Vol. III (1706), p. 758

1700s

 * The Owning and Setting up the Pretended Prince of Wales for King of England, is not only the highest Indignity offered to Me and the whole Nation, but does so nearly concern every Man, who has a Regard for the Protestant Religion, or the present and future Quiet and Happiness of your Country, that I need not Press you to lay it seriously to Heart, and to consider what further effectual Means may be used for securing the Succession of the Crown in the Protestant Line, and Extinguishing the Hopes of all Pretenders, and their open or Secret Abettors.
 * Speech to Parliament (30 December 1701), quoted in White Kennett, A Complete History of England: With the lives of All the Kings and Queens Thereof; From the Earliest Account of Time, to the Death of His late Majesty King William III. Vol. III (1706), p. 827

 * By the French King's placing his Grandson on the Throne of Spain, he is in a Condition to oppress the rest of Europe, unless speedy and effectual Measures be taken. Under this pretence, he is become the real Master of the whole Spanish Monarchy; he has made it to be entirely depending on France, and disposes of it as of his own Dominions, and by that means he has surrounded his Neighbours in such a manner, that though the Name of Peace may be said to continue, yet they are put to the Expence and Inconveniences of War. This must affect England in the nearest and most sensible Manner, in respect to our Trade, which will soon become precarious in all the valuable Branches of it; in respect to our Peace and Safety at Home, which we cannot hope should long continue; and in respect to that part which England ought to take in the Preservation of the Liberty of Europe.
 * Speech to Parliament (30 December 1701), quoted in White Kennett, A Complete History of England: With the lives of All the Kings and Queens Thereof; From the Earliest Account of Time, to the Death of His late Majesty King William III. Vol. III (1706), pp. 827-828

 * In order to obviate the general Calamity with which the rest of Christendom is threatned by this Exorbitant Power of France, I have concluded several Alliances, according to the Encouragement given Me by Both Houses of Parliament; which I will direct shall be laid before you, and which I do not doubt you will enable Me to make good.
 * Speech to Parliament (30 December 1701), quoted in White Kennett, A Complete History of England: With the lives of All the Kings and Queens Thereof; From the Earliest Account of Time, to the Death of His late Majesty King William III. Vol. III (1706), p. 828

 * It is fit I should tell you, the Eyes of all Europe are upon this Parliament, all Matters are at a stand till your Resolutions are known, and therefore no Time ought to be lost. You have yet an opportunity, by God's Blessing, to secure to you and your Posterity the quiet Enjoyment of your Religion and Liberties, if you are not wanting to your selves, but will exert the Ancient Vigor of the English Nation: But I tell you plainly My Opinion is, If you do not lay hold on this Occasion, you have no Reason to hope for another.
 * Speech to Parliament (30 December 1701), quoted in White Kennett, A Complete History of England: With the lives of All the Kings and Queens Thereof; From the Earliest Account of Time, to the Death of His late Majesty King William III. Vol. III (1706), p. 828

 * Let Me conjure you to disappoint the only Hopes of Our Enemies, by your Unanimity. I have shewn, and will always shew, how desirous I am to be the Common Father of all My People: Do you in like manner lay aside Parties and Divisions; Let there be no other Distinction heard of among Us for the future, but of those who are for the Protestant Religion and the present Establishment, and of those who mean a Popish Prince and a French Government. I will only add this, If you do in good earnest desire to see England hold the Balance of Europe, and to be indeed at the Head of the Protestant Interest, it will appear by your right improving the present Opportunity.
 * Speech to Parliament (30 December 1701), quoted in White Kennett, A Complete History of England: With the lives of All the Kings and Queens Thereof; From the Earliest Account of Time, to the Death of His late Majesty King William III. Vol. III (1706), p. 828

 * Can this last long?
 * Last words, 19 March, 1702; Quoted in: Herbert Lockyer (1969). 700 Final Quotes from the Famous, the Infamous, and the Inspiring Figures of History. p. 83.
 * William III, suffering from a broken collar-bone, was speaking to his physician.

Quotes about William III

 * James II's replacement by William III in February 1689 was one of the most decisive changes of monarch in England since the coming of the first William in 1066. Even on a personal level the change was dramatic. James II had been devotedly Catholic, blinkered and narrowly English in outlook. He was hostile to the pretensions of parliament, impatient of the restrictions that the law imposed on his powers. William, though James's nephew by blood, was anything but English in most ways. While he indulged his wife's Anglicanism, his personal sympathies lay with the starkly un-English Calvinism of the Dutch Reformed Church. His favourite friends were as foreign as his accent. His intelligence was acute and his tastes cosmopolitan. His political preoccupations were European, far removed from the average Englishman's insularity. He had no great love of representative institutions, but had learned to live with them in the United Provinces and accepted that he must do so in England.
 * Geoffrey Holmes, 'Revolution, War and Politics 1689–1714', in Blair Worden (ed.), Stuart England (1986), p. 199

 * [T]hat great religious radical, King William...intended to raise a goodly fabric of charity, of concord, and of peace, and upon which his admirers of the present day are endeavouring to build the dungeon of their Protestant Constitution. If the views and intentions of King William had been such as are now imputed to him, instead of blessing his arrival as an epoch of glory and happiness to England, we should have had reason to curse the hour when first he printed his footstep on our strand. But he came not here a bigoted polemic, with religious tracts in one hand, and civil persecution in the other; he came to regenerate and avenge the prostrate and insulted liberties of England; he came with peace and toleration on his lips, and with civil and religious liberty in his heart.
 * Lord Palmerston, speech in the House of Commons in favour of Catholic Emancipation (18 March 1829), quoted in George Henry Francis, Opinions and Policy of the Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B., M.P., &c. as Minister, Diplomatist, and Statesman, During More Than Forty Years of Public Life (1852), pp. 84-85

 * After Westphalia brought peace to Europe, the second half of the seventeenth century saw a further spread of resident ambassadors, with Louis XIV’s France leading the way, and French replaced Latin as the lingua franca. There was, however, still scope for summitry, for instance during Peter the Great’s tour of Western Europe in 1697–8. His meetings with William III of England helped bring Russia belatedly into the European diplomatic orbit. In due course, the czar created a “Diplomatic Chancellery” and a network of foreign embassies on the European model.
 * David Reynolds, Summits: Six Meetings that Changed the Twentieth Century (2007), p. 19

 * William III. is now termed a scoundrel, but was not James II. a fool? The character of William is generally considered on too small a scale. To estimate it properly, we must remember that Louis XIV. had formed a vast scheme of conquest, which would have overthrown the liberties of all Europe, have subjected even us to the caprice of French priests and French harlots. The extirpation of the Protestant religion, the abolition of all civil privileges, would have been the infallible consequence. I speak of this scheme not as a partisan, but from the most extensive reading and information on the topic. I say that William III. was the first, if not sole cause, of the complete ruin of this plan of tyranny. The English revolution was but a secondary object, the throne a mere step towards the altar of European liberty. William had recourse to all parties merely to serve this great end, for which he often exposed his own life in the field, and was devoured by constant cares in the cabinet.
 * Horace Walpole, Walpoliana (1825), pp. 166-167

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Talk:The Office (U.S. TV series)

Clean up
I did a bit of clean up on the article. Is more needed?--Jeremy Butler 15:22, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

 * It looks nice, but yes, a little more is needed:
 * Dialogues should be seperated by half-width rules
 * Episode titles should be italicised (but not the numbers): Example: Diversity Day [1.2]
 * Characters which have a wikipedia page should be linked the first time they have dialogue in an episode.
 * You can consult Guide to layout and Templates/TV shows.
 * Thanks! ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 17:18, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I've re-added the cleanup tag since not all issues have been addressed. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 16:43, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

The Office: not regarding technical difficluties
The Office is a super great show. BAM! MOTHA FOOQUE!

Unforked
I've "unforked" this article, as there's really no reason for it to have been split up. At only three seasons, this show has a much shorter run thus far than the few shows we have split, like The Simpsons, South Park, or Stargate SG-1. It looks like the large page size for this is due to excessive quoting in places (the season 2 & 3 episodes starting with Performance Review, primarily). The unofficial, unwritten suggestion for TV shows (I hope that we can get that written into a policy or guideline soon) is no more than between 3 and 8 quotes/bits of dialogue per episode, especially for a half-hour show. —LrdChaos (talk) 07:51, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Looong article!
Should each season has its own separate page or something? 99.225.17.20 15:49, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Episode Links
I'm adding links to Wikipedia for each episode. Anyone want to help? Also, dont really think it's necessary to do so for characters in the dialogue as in some of Season 1. Maybe just link the characters at the bottom in the Cast section.

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I've answered in Talk:The Office (US). Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 17:20, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

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~ MosheZadka (Talk) 20:26, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi. I reverted your creation of a Homer Simpson page, since it merely makes the current Simpsons problem (unverifiable quotations, uncertainty about dialogue location) worse. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 18:17, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice. --Mihoshi 18:20, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Might I suggest reading the GtL before making more edits? So far, many of your edits have turned pages which violate the GtL into pages which violate it worse. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk)

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Talk:Physics

Cat + toast powered monorail
i highly doubt that robert j oppenheimer quote. -Cody

 * Googling suggests John Frazee in the Journal of Irreproducible Results, so I changed it to that. Maybe someone who reads that august journal can confirm.  Dunno if that's the first occurrance of cat+toast jokes, maybe someone can shed some light on that too. -- Kevin Ryde 22:38, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

"Shut up and calculate!"
There are at least two ways of taking this.

The simple way is that the philosophy of science is not important. But not thinking deeply might have might have lead away from things like quantum computing and maybe even super conductors just as much as taking things like the Copenhagen Interpretation too seriously would have!

A more philosophical interpretation of this saying is that a Bertrand Russel logical approach is needed, not a Ludwig Wittgenstein ordinary language approach. That is, ordinary languages such as English are not capable of expressing deep philosophical aspects of quantum mechanics. To get from ordinary language to qm, one has to go through logic and higher mathematics. So one can reach a philosophical understanding while calculating but not while talking.

Unsourced

 * Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
 * Stephen Hawking

 * Guests at a cocktail party in the Southern Hemisphere tend to circulate in an anticlockwise direction.
 * Corollary to Parkinson's 2nd Law

 * I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
 * Richard Feynman

 * If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.
 * Albert Einstein

 * My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
 * Stephen Hawking

 * Nothing is more interesting to the true theorist than a fact which directly contradicts a theory generally accepted up to that time, for this is his particular work.
 * Max Planck

 * Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
 * Richard Feynman

 * The theory of quanta can be likened to medicine that cures the disease but kills the patient.
 * Hendrick Kramers

 * Toast always lands buttered-side down, and a cat always lands feet first. I propose we strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the two will hover, spinning inches from the ground. With a giant buttered-toast/cat array, a hovering monorail could easily link New York with Chicago.
 * John Frazee in the Journal of Irreproducible Results

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Talk:Pokémon

I tried to clean up the article a bit. I organized the quotes into their respective characters. If someone could try citing which episodes/movies/games the quotes are from, that'd be great! —This unsigned comment is by Twilight Kitsune (talk • contribs) 23:20, 22 February, 2007 (UTC).

 * It seems to me that a lot of the dialogue is from the Movies/Episodes, other than those categorized under Minor Game Characters. This is judgeable easier after careful monitoring and comparing of Game character behaviour & dialogue, and Movie character behaviour & dialogue.
 * For example:
 * Ash/Red:
 * The ingame Ash/Red hardly says much (or hardly anything at all) - possibly because he is the player.
 * Red, (the player’s character from Pokémon Red and Blue and Yellow in Mt. Silver, Johto) also says nothing except ".......".
 * Gym Leaders and other Companions:
 * Brock, Misty, and other characters only adventure with Ash in anime. Within the game, they do not follow Ash (there are a few to no exceptions), hence dialogue variation is limited.
 * Team Rocket members Jessie, James, and Meowth:
 * Although they make several appearances in Yellow - and in Yellow only - Meowth does not talk, unlike in the anime. Therefore, the dialogues containing Meowth, should be from animation. (This includes other 'talking' Pokémon, such as Squirtle)
 * As I have hardly watched any Pokemon Movies/Episodes, I have absolutely no idea of the 'Movies/Episodes' bit, but I may be able to figure out the Games section. (All I need is a Gameboy, time to play (and restart the gameboy numerous times), and games to find sources for quotes.)
 * --BryghtShadow 11:57, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Added a James quote from the Diamond & Pearl anime :) 68.190.208.30 19:29, 21 June 2007 (UTC)Someone

Split Topic
I suggest we split this topic into two different topics (one for the shows and one for the games, this way it'll be easier to clean-up the the page(s).--Quote Master 2661 20:47, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

 * I second that.

Lucas?
Where are the quotes under Lucas from? Also, they could use a bit of tidying up.

Okay....
May I please ask why the latest additions CONTINUOUSLY get deleted? I mean there are some very good additions just getting deleted on the spot.

 * 1. Please remember to sign your comments in the talk section.
 * 2. They're removed for copyvio. We have rules here at Wikiquote. Look at the top of this page. WikiLubber 13:35, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Tidying
Due to increasing episodes coming and other things, I am going to try and clean this up as best as I can and arrange this by season. I have a feeling that the television part of this page needs a page on it's own due to the fact that more than 90% of the quotes belong to the show and it's movies. As far as the games and manga are concerned, I'd put them on a separate page. I'm sure this has been brought up several times, but it could be arranged better.--SamuraiMaster 01:25, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Where is the standard dialogue of Team Rocket?
I can't find that dialogue in any of the page. And I think it should have a page.

Pokemon Journeys
We should add the next series from sun and moon.(StarWarsFanBoy (talk) 01:52, 8 July 2020 (UTC))

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