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G. M. Trevelyan

George Macaulay Trevelyan (16 February 1876 – 21 July 1962) was an English historian and academic.

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 * The discredit to the good name of England if she drifts, however unintentionally, into a partition of the Persian State with the Russian Government, and the consequent setback to the moral element in our foreign policy, cannot lightly be faced.
 * Letter to The Times (25 October 1910), p. 6

 * The occupation of Tripoli appears to rest on the same basis as the occupation of other parts of North Africa by other European Powers—viz., on the law of force. Some of us wish, for the sake of our friends the Italians, that the Italian State had continued to rest on the stronger, nobler, and more economical basis of a free national union of a single race. But the Italians may know their own affairs best, and in any case we are in no position to scold them for imitating ourselves.
 * Letter to The Times (1 November 1911), p. 8

 * It is perhaps in the sphere of political institutions that the English have been most original in their native invention, from the time of Magna Charta downwards, or even from the time of William the Conqueror. Certainly it is in politics that the world at large has borrowed most from us; for our literature, though as great as the Greek or Latin, has had relatively little influence outside the English-speaking nations. In politics modern Italy, under Cavour, went to school in England, borrowing thence her constitutional monarchy and parliament. Yet even in the realm of political ideas, where we have taught more than we learned, how much we owed to Ancient Rome! The Conservative idea of respect for law and of the sovereign regal power was throughout our history sanctioned by the glamour of classical association hanging round the words Lex, Rex, Imperator. Our Plantagenet and our Tudor foundations were built on the Roman model. And no less in the realm of Liberal thought, the ideal of Roman Republican virtue, perpetuated in Livy, Plutarch, and Tacitus, did as much to inspire Milton, Sidney, and the opponents of the Stuarts as the Old Testament itself.
 * 'Englishmen and Italians: Some Aspects of Their Relations Past and Present', read before the British Academy (June 1919), quoted in Clio, A Muse: And other Essays (1913; rev. ed. 1930), p. 106

 * In our own day classics have been dethroned without being replaced. But throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries our statesmen were so brought up that they thought of Rome as the hearth of their political civilization, where their predecessor Cicero had denounced Catiline; where the models of their own eloquence and statecraft, as taught them at Eton, Harrow and Winchester, had been practised and brought to perfection. And, therefore, the ruins of the Forum were as familiar, as sacred, and as moving to Russell and to Gladstone as to Mazzini and Garibaldi themselves. This was a prime fact in the history of the Risorgimento.
 * 'Englishmen and Italians: Some Aspects of Their Relations Past and Present', read before the British Academy (June 1919), quoted in Clio, A Muse: And other Essays (1913; rev. ed. 1930), p. 107

 * Linguistic ignorance and racial isolation are our greatest national dangers in the new era opened out by the War. We can no longer stand apart from Europe if we would. Yet we are untrained to mix with our neighbours, or even talk to them. Foreign policy is merely an outcome of our other international relations, and can only give official expression to our national ignorance or our national understanding of other races. The League of Nations is not a substitute for mutual understanding; rather it assumes that such understanding exists, and if that cannot soon be brought into existence, the League will fail, and with it the hopes of mankind.
 * The Recreations of an Historian (1919), p. 241

 * The abolition of the slave trade in 1807 was indeed the one large measure of reform that became law between the French Revolution and Castlereagh's death in 1822. It is greatly to the credit of our ancestors that England, in her death-grip with Napoleon, should have given time and thought to do justice to the negro. It was a fine use to make of the sea power that Nelson bequeathed us for the duration of the war. And, at the return of peace, the world-wide influence that Trafalgar and Waterloo gave to England's representatives was used by Castlereagh and Wellington, in consultation with Wilberforce, to further the suppression of slave trading under every flag.
 * 'Wilberforce: The Centenary of a Warrior', The Times (29 July 1933), p. 13

 * Instead of a little power, occasionally exercised at the expense of great unpopularity, the Monarch, by retiring from politics, acquired an immense popularity outside, and retained important influence behind the scenes. The new popularity of the Monarch was proved at the Jubilees of Victoria and of George V. The new English Democracy is in love with the Crown. Radicalism, founded by Tom Paine in the days of George III, had had strong Republican tendencies, but they had withered away as the Crown retired from politics. The modern Labour Party has no quarrel with the English Monarchy. The symbolic importance of the Monarch has greatly increased even in our own day. The Crown is the one symbol that all classes and parties can without reservation accept.
 * 'Monarchy and the Constitution: A Historical Survey', The Times (11 May 1937), p. 41

 * As regards "predominance in Europe," whether "Germany wished" it or not, she would have got it, if she had once more overrun France. And she would have overrun France as well as Belgium if England had not intervened. Then there would have been an end of the independence of all Continental States in face of Germany, and in face of such a Europe British independence could not have been maintained. German predominance would have been just as fatal to us whether it had been intentionally or unintentionally acquired. Such at least was Grey's view, and it will always be the view of many Englishmen.
 * Letter to The Times (12 August 1937), p. 11

 * Dictatorship and democracy must live side by side in peace, or civilization is doomed. For this end I believe Englishmen would do well to remember that the Nazi form of government is in large measure the outcome of Allied and British injustice at Versailles in 1919.
 * Letter to The Times (12 August 1937), p. 11

 * That England and Italy should be on friendly terms is essential for the peace of the Mediterranean and of Africa. It is also essential for the peace of Europe, and therefore, in all probability, for the prosperity and independence of both countries. An ideological war between the great Powers of Europe would destroy all that is left of good in our civilization. Italy and England can cooperate to avert that catastrophe. Such cooperation involves no disloyalty on Italy's part to her German partner, nor on ours to France. There is a common European interest—peace. I feel deeply grateful to Mr. Chamberlain for his cheerful courage in taking a definite step towards reconciliation, in face of great difficulties in the path.
 * Letter to The Times (19 April 1938), p. 11

 * Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
 * History of England (1960)

 * The sum total of progress associated with the the Industrial Revolution has not been wholly for the good of man.
 * Illustrated English Social History. Vol. 3

 * I read with regret that the authorities intend to remove the statue of Gordon from Trafalgar Square and send it down to Sandhurst. I hope the decision is not irrevocable. His memory is not specially suited to inspire young officers with zeal for discipline and obedience to orders. On the other hand, he is a true national hero; his strange and tragic story is deeply written across our political and imperial annals; his personality and genius were unique, and will always remain a source of pride to Englishmen.
 * Letter to The Times (3 May 1948), p. 5

 * The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today...The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.
 * "Autobiography of an Historian", An Autobiography and Other Essays (1949)

 * I am sure I am as little of a Jacobite as anybody but I sincerely hope that the statue of James II will not be moved, because it is a fine work of art. If once we begin moving statues for political or historical reasons there will be no end to controversy.
 * Letter to The Times (13 March 1958), p. 11

British History in the Nineteenth Century (1782–1901) (1922)

 * A British officer in Flanders in 1918, transplanted to a British messroom in the same country in 1793, would be more at home than in a foreign messroom of to-day. Though he would find the drinking too heavy for him, he would be surrounded by presumptions indefinably familiar. He would be critical of much, but he would understand from inside what he was criticising. Most of us would be at home taking tea at Dr. Johnson's, hearing the contact of civilised man with society discussed with British commonsense and good nature, with British idiosyncrasy and prejudice. Only we should be aware that we had stepped back out of a scientific, romantic and mobile era into an era literary, classical and static.
 * p. xiv

 * A subject of Frederick the Great of Prussia, who had strayed into the middle of a Westminster election in 1782, thus describes what he saw and felt there... It is true that if the good man had witnessed an election at an average English borough, or had ascertained that Manchester and Birmingham were unrepresented, he might have felt less enraptured. Nevertheless, he had seen something great, which had then no parallel in France, Spain, Italy or in his own country, something which, for all its absurdities, was of the heart of England.
 * p. 17

 * The persistence of the Foxite tradition in one section of the governing class made it possible for Grey, at the end of his long career, to constitute a party in the unreformed Parliament, large enough when backed from outside by the middle and lower classes, to pass the Bill that abolished the rotten boroughs. Nothing else could have ultimately averted civil war. It was certainly inevitable, and it may have been desirable, that a great Conservative reaction should emphasise our rejection of the French doctrines. But if the whole of the privileged class had joined Pitt's anti-Jacobin bloc and had been brought up in the neo-Tory tradition, the constitution could not have been altered by legal means, and change could only have come in nineteenth-century Britain along the same violent and bloodstained path by which it has come in continental countries.
 * p. 69

 * The Napoleonic war (1803–15) that followed the brief interval of the Peace of Amiens, was for us a war waged in self-defence, to prevent the systematic subordination of Europe to a vigorous military despotism sworn to our destruction. A few months at the Foreign Office in 1806 and an attempt to treat with our adversary for peace, made this clear even to Fox, who had been till then singularly blind to the real character of Bonaparte. But the Whigs were only enthusiastic for the war by fits and starts. The honour of beating Napoleon fell as clearly to the Tories, as the honour of beating Louis XIV had fallen to the Whigs.
 * p. 108

 * The greatest gains with which Britain emerged from the war did not appear in the treaties. There were the unrivalled supremacy of our navy and of our mercantile marine; the reputation of having been the only Power that consistently withstood Napoleon; the possession of a Parliamentary system now more than ever the envy of "less happier lands" since the relative failure of "French principles" of liberty. With these advantages we faced the coming era.
 * p. 140

 * [T]he merits of the great settlement associated with the names of Wellington and Castlereagh gave Britain security which she used for a hundred years of progress in liberty and high civilisation; while the defects of the same settlement, for which also they were in part though in smaller degree responsible, set a date to that happiness in the end.
 * p. 141

 * It is significant of much that in the seventeenth century members of Parliament quoted from the Bible; in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from the classics; in the twentieth century from nothing at all.
 * p. 214

 * The spirit of the new age in face of these new problems, formulated in theory by Bentham, was first manifested in Government action by the Liberal-Tories in Canning's day. But the monopoly of power had still been strictly preserved. To the Whigs between 1830 and 1835 belongs the credit of destroying the monopoly, reinterpreting the Constitution, and harnessing public opinion to the machine of government. Whatever some of the Whigs might say about the "finality" of their Bill, this new principle, when once admitted, could brook no limitation until complete democracy had been realised under old English forms. On the other hand the belief of the anti-Reform Tories that the Reform Bill would lead at once to the overthrow of Crown and Lords, Church and property, was the exact reverse of the truth. It was due to the Bill that England was not involved in the vicious circle of continental revolution and reaction, and that our political life kept its Anglo-Saxon moorings
 * p. 225

 * The people did not become sovereign in Germany when Bismarck granted limited popular rights, because those rights had not been won by the action of the nation itself, as the First Reform Bill had been won. In England, "the nation" was defined afresh by each of the Franchise Acts of 1867, 1884, and 1918, but the fact that the nation was master in its own house had been settled once for all in the days of May.
 * p. 242

 * Political self-government, central and local, was an English invention, imported into Scotland by the Grey Ministry, but intensely popular in spite of its foreign origin. Although in temper, creed and outlook on life the Scottish people were less submissive than the English, the civil institutions of their country contained in 1830 no elements of popular election such as always existed here and there in the south of the island. There was no safety-valve for all that pent energy. The Reform Bill, in England an evolution, in Scotland was a revolution, veiled in form of law, and the passions aroused over it had been proportionately more fierce.
 * p. 243

 * It was difficult to understand what was going on across the Channel, but there was satisfaction in the thought that we were not as other nations. Our social and political troubles, it was held, lay behind us, wisely solved in advance—by Queen Elizabeth, William of Orange, Pitt, Lord Grey, Mr. Cobden or Sir Robert Peel, according to choice—and above all by the calm good sense of the British people. In the middle of the European revolutions the first part of Macaulay's history was published, and attained at once a popularity and influence analogous to that of Scott, Byron or Dickens. There were many grounds for its success, but one was that it presented a reasoned eulogy of Britain and things British, as that age understood them. Nor could the historian resist the temptation of inserting a passage proudly contrasting 1688 at home with 1848 abroad.
 * p. 295

England Under Queen Anne: Blenheim (1930)

 * If...the story of the great events and the great men of our Augustan age could be told in its truth and simplicity, as only the man of Athens could have told it, it would move like a five-act tragedy from start to finish, presenting in turn the overweening pride and the fall of Louis, then of Marlborough and of the Whigs, then of the Tories in their turn, while, through the crash of each successive crisis of war and politics, the fortune of England moves forward on the tide of destiny. And what men that little rustic England could breed! A nation of five and a half millions that had Wren for its architect, Newton for its scientist, Locke for its philosopher, Bentley for its scholar, Pope for its poet, Addison for its essayist, Bolingbroke for its orator, Swift for its pamphleteer and Marlborough to win its battles, had the recipe for genius.
 * p. vii

 * The movement towards philanthropy instead of persecution, as an outlet for religious enthusiasm, was one of the characteristic fruits of the Revolution, as also was the improvement in public justice, both political and criminal. Because the Revolution Settlement was not a party victory, but an agreed compromise between Whig and Tory, Church and Dissent, it made humanity, moderation and co-operation the main current of affairs in the Eighteenth Century.
 * p. 70

 * The erection of British naval and commercial supremacy on a footing that proved permanent for more than two hundred years, might not unreasonably be regarded as the most important outcome of the reign of Anne.
 * p. 247

 * This great but noiseless revolution in sea-power was accomplished by the victories of Marlborough's arms and diplomacy on land; by the maintenance of England's fighting navy at full strength during the time when French and Dutch were perforce disarming at sea; and by the wise application of an amphibious strategy in the Mediterranean, dreamed of by Cromwell, conceived by William, and executed by Marlborough, through the agency of such capable seamen as Rooke, Leake, Shovell and Byng. It was because Marlborough regarded the naval war as an integral part of the whole allied effort against Louis, that English sea power was fixed between 1702 and 1712 on a basis whence no enemy has since been able to dislodge it.
 * p. 248

 * The success of England and her allies in the War of the Spanish Succession, which curbed "the exorbitant power of France" for eighty years to come, influenced the whole tone of Eighteenth Century civilization in a thousand ways. The defeat of Louis is one of the most prominent facts in history. We are, therefore, apt to forget how very near he came to attaining world-power, by the retention of the whole Spanish Empire as a field of French influence, and by the virtual annexation of the Netherlands and of Italy as jewels in the French Crown. He was never nearer to success than in the spring of 1704. Nothing but the accident of Marlborough's genius, and some lucky turns of fortune in the field that year, diverted the paths of destiny.
 * p. 341

 * But for all their nonsense and faction, the English were acquiring a new conception of the place of their country in the world, as the mistress of the Mediterranean, "the scourge of France, the arbitress of Europe," to whom foreign Princes and peoples looked for help and justice not in vain. England was more than all she had been under Elizabeth, more than all she had been under Cromwell, for she was now a united nation with a fixed and free Constitution. Whig and Tory might bark and bicker, but they carried on the nation's work between them, because the blood-feud of sects and parties had been staunched by the compromise of the Revolution Settlement, which, by giving to England domestic peace, based more securely than on force, had opened to her the paths of greatness abroad.
 * p. 423

England Under Queen Anne: Ramillies and the Union with Scotland (1932)

 * As contrasted with our treatment of Ireland and our dealings with America, the Scottish Union stands out in the Eighteenth Century as a thing apart, an unwonted and surprising act of wise Imperial initiative. The men who made the Union of 1707 (Marlborough, Godolphin, Somers and Harley for England, Queensberry and Argyle for Scotland) were not selfless patriots—it was not an age productive of such. They were shrewd, worldly men, capable of looking the real facts of a situation in the face. And they studied the interest of their respective countries all the better because, unlike Fletcher of Saltoun, they could do so without too much zeal. They were, moreover, free from the religious and political fanaticisms of the previous century, which had so often stood in the way of agreement by mutual concession.
 * p. viii

 * The action of these courageous but wary statesmen was based, not on theory, but on sound information and calculation of all the forces on the board. Such was the method of the Whigs and Tories who made the Revolution Settlement of 1689, the Act of Settlement of 1701 that fixed the Succession on the House of Hanover, and half-a-dozen years later this Union with Scotland. These three settlements, on which the British Constitution has rested ever since, are parts of a single scheme; they were all of them made in the same spirit of compromise between parties, churches, and nations, and therefore they were never over-set. The not very idealistic statesmen of that Augustan age laid the foundation of modern Britain more wisely and well than the passionate Cavaliers and Roundheads of an earlier time had been able to do. It was the heroic idealists—Laud, Hampden, Cromwell, Montrose—who had rough-hewn the issues of controversy, but the terms of settlement were drawn up by their prudently compromising successors in the reigns of William and Anne. The Scottish Union was a piece of their most characteristic and successful work.
 * p. ix

 * [I]f the lesson of Marlborough's genius at Blenheim had been taught in vain to those in Holland and Germany who refused to learn, it had its full effect in our island. Bishop Burnet was not the only man whose "heart was so charged with joy he could not sleep" on the night when the news came through. In manor house, farm and workshop a race of country-folk, who commonly heard and thought about little save their own quiet occupations, were stirred by the strange tidings from the Danube, which opened wider vistas to the imagination, recalled fireside talk of King Harry at Agincourt and Queen Bess at Tilbury, and pointed forward to a future of illimitable magnitude for their country and their children, dimly descried like the sun rising behind the midst.
 * p. 2

England Under Queen Anne: The Peace and the Protestant Succession (1934)

 * At Utrecht the bigwigged Plenipotentiaries ended an epoch, and liquidated the fifty years' struggle of the smaller States of Europe to save themselves from the hegemony of France, and of the Protestants of Europe to save themselves from the fate of the French Huguenots. These two movements of self-defence, combined by the political genius of William, had triumphed through the military genius of Marlborough. England, entering late into the struggle, had decided the issue. Her success had demonstrated that a country of free institutions could defeat a State based upon autocratic rule. This was a new idea in the world, and caused men to think afresh on the maxims of State.
 * p. vii

 * If we consider the relative positions of France and of England from 1680 to 1688, and compare them with the situation when Anne died, the contrast is great indeed. England, lately despised abroad and distraught at home, had become the chief instrument in winning the world war, and had then dictated the Peace. With sea-power no longer rivalled either by France or Holland, with financial and commercial pre-eminence hardly less remarkable, and endowed for the moment with the martial greatness lent her by Marlborough, Great Britain was relatively more important in the world in 1713 than in 1815 or 1919. No country save France was then a rival to her greatness.
 * pp. vii-viii

 * Kindly old England has always in the long run revolted against "fascist" experiments at the permanent suppression of "the other side".
 * p. 96

 * Apart from a few Crown appointments, like the Christ Church and Trinity Headships, Oxford and Cambridge had ever since the Revolution enjoyed a very complete immunity from Royal and Ministerial interference—an academic liberty that held in it the seeds of intellectual freedom for the whole country, as compared to the practice in many other lands down to our own time. The quarrel of James II with the Universities was constantly in the recollection of the dons, who, whether Whig or Tory, would never, in his daughter's reign, permit the least interference with their internal government by royal mandate or request. Any such attempt was promptly met by expressions of the hope that Queen Anne would "reflect upon what was done in Magdalen College in her father's time." Meanwhile politics swayed College elections, as in the case of poor "Mr. Entwissle's pretensions" to a Fellowship at Brazennose, for the young man was found to be a Whig, "which was against the present humour of the College." Such an incident in 1711 is not surprising, but it is a remarkable proof of academic freedom from government control that Oxford was permitted to continue such practices and to remain Tory, and largely Jacobite, under the Hanoverian kings and their Whig governments. Academic and scholastic freedom, which is a necessary condition of intellectual and political freedom, was established as against the State in Eighteenth Century England. In a great part of Europe it does not exist to-day. It is one of the island blessings we have inherited from our Whig and Tory ancestors.
 * p. 128

 * Our formidable factions, for all their nonsense and violence, served to protect the liberty of the subject. It is only in States based on the less civilized principle that no party may exist save the party of government, that liberty of press and person can be totally destroyed, whether in the Eighteenth or the Twentieth Century. That is not the English tradition.
 * p. 206

 * When Bolingbroke fled to France, Oxford, with the cool courage that was the finer part of his phlegmatic nature, remained to stand his trial. Fortunately the French archives were not available to the prosecution; and the House of Lords, always at this period a moderator of party heats, acquitted him as it had acquitted Somers sixteen years before. In so doing, it served England well, for the use of impeachments against fallen statesmen is unsuited to a constitutional regime. In civilized society men cannot be expected to serve their country with ropes round their necks.
 * p. 316

 * Security and liberty were obtained under the Hanoverian Constitution, because, under Walpole, the Whigs became, what they had not always been, the "moderate men."
 * p. 318

 * After long generations of trouble, persecution and hatred, England had at last won through to a period of domestic peace and individual freedom. It was not a period of avowed idealism; it was not a period of legislative reform. But neither idealism nor reform is the whole of life for men or nations. The vigour and initiative of Englishmen, at home and overseas, in all branches of human effort and intellect, were the admiration of Eighteenth Century Europe. The greatness of England in the Hanoverian epoch was made by men acting freely in a free community, with little help indeed from Church or State, but with no hindrance. The great art of letting your neighbour alone, even if he thinks differently from you, was learnt by Englishmen under Walpole, at a time when the lesson was still a strange one elsewhere. Some European countries have not learnt it to this day or are rapidly unlearning it again.
 * pp. 319-320

 * The specific work of the early Eighteenth Century in England, on the line down which it was launched by the events of Anne's reign, was the establishment of the rule of law, and that law a law of liberty. On that solid foundation the reforms of succeeding epochs have been based.
 * p. 321

 * If England between the Revolution and the death of George II had not established the rule of the law of freedom, the England of the Nineteenth Century would have proceeded along the path of change by methods of violence, instead of by Parliamentary modification of the law. The establishment of liberty was not the result of the complete triumph of any one party in the State. It was the result of the balance of political parties and religious sects, compelled to tolerate one another, until toleration became a habit of the national mind. Even the long Whig supremacy that was the outcome and sequel of the reign of Anne, was conditional on a vigilant maintenance of institutions in Church and State that were specifically dear to the Tories, and a constant respect for the latent power of political opponents, who were fellow subjects and brother Englishmen.
 * p. 321

English Social History (1942)

 * If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
 * ch. 8

 * In those days, before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!
 * ch. 8

 * [Education] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
 * ch. 18

A Shortened History of England (1959)

 * The era when London awoke to find herself the maritime centre of the suddenly expanded globe, was also the era of the Renaissance and the Reformation - movements of intellectual growth and individual self-assertion which proved more congenial to the British than to many other races, and seemed to emancipate the island genius.
 * Introduction

 * Against Machiavelli's princely interpretation of the new nationalism, Britain alone of the great national States successfully held out, turned back the tide of despotism, and elaborated a system by which a debating club of elected persons could successfully govern an Empire in peace and in war.
 * Introduction

 * One outcome of the Norman Conquest was the making of the English language. ...the speech of Alfred and Bede, was exiled from hall and bower, from court and cloister, and was despised as a peasant's jargon... It ceased almost, though not quite, to be a written language. … Now when a language is seldom written and is not an object of interest to scholars, it quickly adapts itself in the mouths of plain people to the needs and uses of life. ...it can be altered much more easily when there are no grammarians to protest. During the three centuries when our native language was a peasant's dialect, it lost its clumsy inflexions and elaborate genders, and acquired the grace, suppleness, and adaptability which are among its chief merits.

 * Their demands were limited and practical, and for that reason they successfully initiated a movement that led in the end to yet undreamt-of liberties for all.
 * describing the English barons who pressured King John into accepting the Magna Carta.

 * The Charter was regarded as important because it assigned definite and practical remedies to temporary evils. There was very little that was abstract in its terms, less even than later generations supposed.... A King had been brought to order, not by a posse of reactionary feudalists, but the community of the land under baronial leadership; a tyrant had been subjected to the laws which hitherto it had been his private privilege to administer and to modify at will. A process had begun which was to end in putting the power of the Crown into the hands of the community at large.
 * on the Magna Carta's legacy

 * She regarded it as a first charge of her slender war-budget to see that French and Dutch independence were maintained against Philip. This was secured, partly by English help and by the holding of the seas, and partly by domestic alliance of the Calvinists with Catholic ' politiques ' averse to Spanish domination; it followed that an element of liberality and toleration very rare in the Europe of that day made itself felt in France and in Holland in a manner agreeable to Elizabeth's eclectic spirit.

 * In the Stuart era, the English developed for themselves, without foreign participation or example, a system of Parliamentary government, local administration and freedom of speech and person, clean contrary to the prevailing tendencies on the continent, which was moving fast toward regal absolution, centralized bureaucracy, and the subjection of the individual to the State.

Quotes about G. M. Trevelyan

 * The Garibaldi trilogy established him as the best-selling historian of his generation, and by the outbreak of the Second World War, England Under the Stuarts was in its seventeenth edition. By 1949 British History in the Nineteenth Century had sold 68,000 copies and the History of England 200,000. But even these astonishing figures were eclipsed by the English Social History. Within a year, it had sold 100,000 copies, and by the early 1950s sales had exceeded half a million. There had been nothing like it since Macaulay – a precedent of which Trevelyan was well and happily aware. Nor do these statistics give any accurate impression of the total audience that Trevelyan reached: for many of his books were bought by libraries and used in schools and must have been read many times over. The tributes paid him in later years – that he had done more to promote interest in history than any other man alive – were wholly deserved.
 * David Cannadine, G. M. Trevelyan: A Life in History (1992), p. 23

 * Narrative technique was the natural vehicle for such influential historians of the two eras as G. M. Trevelyan and Basil Williams, yet whatever their other professional gifts it is now impossible to examine their narratives without a mounting sense of frustration at the shallowness, the superficiality and glibness of much of their writing, their willingness to skate over ignorance with a commonly received form of words, and to evade important problems with a well-turned generalisation.
 * J. C. D. Clark, Revolution and Rebellion: State and Society in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1986), pp. 18-19

 * As concerns the problems of foreign policy, I am paying Mr. Trevelyan the highest compliment which it is in my power to pay him, when I say that, looking at things from abroad, I find after all very little to criticize in his liberal and scrupulously judicial, though patriotic, treatment of this most difficult problem: the way in which he deals with the subject of the diplomatic and moral relations between England and the United States deserves special commendation. In so far as foreign politics bring England into contact and occasional conflict with the outer world, British History becomes merged in World History; and here again we find Mr. Trevelyan, thanks to the liberal and philosophic turn of his mind, equal to the task. His survey of Napoleon the Third's policy, and his characterisation of the Prussian Bismarckian régime are masterpieces of quiet and high-minded impartiality.
 * Élie Halévy, 'Reviewed Work: British History in the Nineteenth Century (1782–1901) by G. M. Trevelyan', History, New Series, Vol. 7, No. 28 (January 1923), pp. 309-310

 * His whole life was a celebration of English civilization. When he wrote about Europe – in just five of his twenty books – it was to write about Italy and how much more difficult and delayed was the coming of liberty to a country riddled with priestcraft and superstition. He was profoundly paternalistic in his social values; liberal in his racial values; progressive in his political values and intolerant in his religious attitudes (though less in later life).
 * John Morrill, 'Introduction' to G. M. Trevleyan, England Under the Stuarts (2002 ed.), pp. ix-x

 * A prize I got for good work at school was one of G. M. Trevelyan's Garibaldi books. This fascinated me, and soon I obtained the other two volumes of the series and studied the whole Garibaldi story in them carefully. Visions of similar deeds in India came before me, of a gallant fight for freedom, and in my mind India and Italy got strangely mixed together.
 * Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography (1936), p. 19

 * It is a wonderful evening, and the Master and Mrs Trevelyan take me for a walk down the limes and on to the Fellows' Garden beyond. George Trevelyan tells me that Gladstone told his father that they should always be grateful for living in the great age of Liberalism. "Other generations, my dear Trevelyan, will be less fortunate." But who could have conceived that any generation would suffer as we have done?
 * Harold Nicolson, diary entry (16 October 1941), quoted in Harold Nicolson, Diaries and Letters, 1939–1945, ed. Nigel Nicolson (1967), p. 188

 * [I]t was he [ Bernard Pares ] who first interested his friend G. M. Trevelyan in Garibaldi by giving him a copy of the Autobiography as a wedding present: surely one of the most momentous wedding presents in literary history.
 * Richard Pares, The Historian's Business, and Other Essays (1961), p. 43

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THE POINTS
Ry-Baby
 * pretending to be so extremely aroused that he fell on the floor and made a big boom. 1 point.

 * So, he calls me (Jordan) and leaves a message on my phone that says he was in my room. So, I went downstairs...I didn't believe him, so i went down and him and Bryce were laying in my bed..it was like 1:00 A.M..... 2 points for being extra funny.

 * Shit on a walkway...completely unavoidable...1 point

Total Points: 4

The Jor
 * We thought jordan was just pulling one of his "If you hit it faster the bumps feel smaller" things... my head hurts. 1 point.

Total Points: 1

Täo Spillèb
 * He actually stopped the car... 1 point

 * He got the Jor's car with just asking politely :)... 1 point

Total Points: 2

B-Poo
 * "Yeah that goes in the back," says Jordan, (bryce steps back, swings around,and completely misses the trunk) 1 point.

 * With Ryan the night of sneaking in Jordan's room.....2 points

 * AWESOME point for being related to chikin. 1 point

Total Points: 4

M-Dizzle
 * He cant get points when he's with Savvy and Jenny... 0 points.

Total Points: 0

Chikin

 * Can't get points just sitting around being a chiken and acting like the BADASS she is....0 points!

 * For being such a BADASS Chikin gets 1 point.... 1 point.

 * For finding out that Bryce's real dad is the step-child of her dad's 2nd cousin .... 1 point.

 * "A-R-G-U-I-N-G".... 1 point!

 * yeah... you know that shit that Baby Mac was talkin about? theres now a picture of it....1 point!

Total Points: 3!

...Babe
 * "Wow I can't wait 'till that kid dies" (referring to Jared Eisner... 1 point.

Total points: 1

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Talk:Avatar: The Last Airbender

Rules
I thought I'd do some guidelines so this page doesn't just become total crap. 1. We need a min and max for each episode. I say 3/5, please agree or disagree 2. Quotes must be VERBATIM 3. Styling should be as such:
 * Sokka: Okay Karma person or thing whoevers in charge of this stuff, if I can just get out of this situation alive, I will give up meat, and sarcasm. Ok? That's all I got. It's pretty much my whole identity, Sokka, the meat and sarcasm guy, but I'm willing to be Sokka the veggies and straight talk fellow. Deal?
 * Aang appears
 * Sokka: Aang! Thank goodness! Have you got any meat?

4. Each quote should do one of the following:
 * a) Define a character
 * b) Define the episode
 * c) Define an aspect of the show by itself (such as bending, the war, etc.)
 * d) Define relationships between characters

I don't want to sound like a dictator so please give any comment/suggestions about the rules. This page can easily become an editing war zone so if you feel the need to remove a quote to add yours please give a reason if it isn't understandable in the synopsis of your change. HeirToPendragon 05:43, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree; we do need some guidelines for this page. Here's my suggestion:
 * Katara: I said, earthbending style!
 * Aang airbends into a grate, causing the rock to move up into the air, revealing Momo behind it
 * Fire Nation soldier: (pointing at Momo) That lemur...he's earthbending!
 * Sokka: No, you idiot! It's the girl!
 * Fire Nation soldier: Oh...of course.
 * Sokka: (to the soldiers) I'll hold her!
 * Sokka: (to Katara) You have twelve hours to find Haru...we'll be right behind you.
 * Actions should be in italics and other details should be in (parentheses). Hmm...and there should be a max for each episode because some episodes are simply too long. These are simply suggestions. Please feel free to comment. 70.137.161.249, 04:12, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Actually I thought scene or action details should be like this:
 * Katara: I said, earthbending style!
 * [Aang airbends into a grate, causing the rock to move up into the air, revealing Momo behind it]
 * Fire Nation soldier: [pointing at Momo] That lemur...he's earthbending!
 * Sokka: No, you idiot! It's the girl!
 * Fire Nation soldier: Oh...of course.
 * Sokka: [to the soldiers] I'll hold her! [to Katara] You have twelve hours to find Haru...we'll be right behind you.
 * Or maybe I got confused somewhere...

Raisin56 09:36, 4 April 2010 (UTC) is me, i insured it wont happen again. sorry ...pls forgaveness sorry. i promise .no any more. sorry for all it i make done you angry. sorry.

Thanks!
Thanks for all you guys do in keeping these AVATAR pages up to date. You all rock! Feel free to delete this once you all have a chance to read. Thanks again! ~Aanglvr31~

Cleaning up, part one
I'm in the process of cleaning this page up, because it has a ridiculous excess of unnecessary quotes. It seems someone has decided the purpose of Wikiquote is to fully transcribe every single episode of this show. THIS IS NOT THE CASE. The purpose of Wikiquote is to collect a list of noteworthy quotations.

NOTEWORTHY!! Worthy of note! Not every random line of dialogue from a cartoon!

Because of the excessive amount of work it's taking to FIX this mess, I'm going to have to do it in sections. I've already edited the book one section. I've started on book two, but have a long way to go, and other responsibilities at present.

DO NOT REVERT THE ARTICLE. If I come back and find it reverted after I spent an hour and a half working on it, I will be extremely cross, and will report the party responsible.

Anyone who would like to help: it's appreciated, but not necessary. I'll be back in about two hours from the posting of this comment to finish cleaning up the main article.

Thanks for your cooperation. Shirikage

(I'm not logged in, because I've lost my password list and am too lazy to try to find it.)

There are some people in this world that respect the hours some people put in something. There are other people that dont care and ruin all the hours put into the work. If you had to ruin the hours of work then you could at least have transferred (copied) the original article to www.avatar.wikia.com, at least then all that hard work would not have been in vain. Im extremely sorry, but you guys have been total jerks and should at least have shown some symapthy for what you have done. Besides we're talking an A++ Grade show here. It desrves it.Zero2001 18:47, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

If you can you should still transfer it. It will redeem your previous transgression. The Fans will Thank You.Zero2001 18:49, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Ok i say sorry to all of you. Sorry. wont be here no more. sorry for everything. this what i can say. gave me a chance pls than. thank you so much. and sorry again

Is from me .Sorry for everything i done. and all giving me chances i likely emo again. i promise to all start from now no more.sorry really sorry. i beg you all pls giving me a chance good again not to doing bad or harm ppl anymore. for those name yest i wrote truely sorry and sorry. this the last chance for me can ? pls i beg u guys. i kmow i am wrong already. pls. i beg you all .its all my fault. sorry for what i did done to who i hurted before. i am here truly sincerity say sorry. i promise no more again .pls gave me a chance to life's back turn good.pls..plsss.

sorry that words who all hurt and make it all happen again. i ask forgave me for truely sincerity. really sorry sorry sorry. sorry for all that not mature words because of this make everything problem out again.i did the one who wrong ,and still talk big.sorry for all.

sorry especially to Edwards .sorry to you. sorry. sorry...really sorry. forgave me.

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I'm going to revert it to before Brion's edit, because it seems it is not "HTML boo-hoo", within a few days unless someone objects. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:38, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

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Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (October 15, 1814 – July 27, 1841) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism. His influence on later Russian literature is still felt in modern times, not only through his poetry, but also through his prose, which founded the tradition of the Russian psychological novel.

A Hero of Our Time (1840; rev. 1841)

 * O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

 * Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

 * I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun.

 * I would make any sacrifice but this; twenty times I can stake my life, even my honour, but my freedom I shall never sell. Why do I prize it so much? … What am I aiming at? Nothing, absolutely nothing.
 * Referring to marriage

 * Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

 * The public of this country is so youthful, not to say simple-minded, that it cannot understand the meaning of a fable unless the moral is set forth at the end. Unable to see a joke, insensible to irony, it has, in a word, been badly brought up. It has not yet learned that in a decent book, as in decent society, open invective can have no place; that our present-day civilisation has invented a keener weapon, none the less deadly for being almost invisible, which, under the cloak of flattery, strikes with sure and irresistible effect.

 * I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he happens to be living. I know not whether this mental quality is deserving of censure or commendation, but it proves the incredible pliancy of his mind and the presence of that clear common sense which pardons evil wherever it sees that evil is inevitable or impossible of annihilation.

 * A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again.

 * In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper.

 * The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egotistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment. Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect – he read it to his friends.

 * Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.

 * Women love only those whom they do not know!

 * Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.

 * A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.

 * One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

 * Women! Women! Who can understand them? Their smiles contradict their glances, their words promise and allure, but the tone of their voice repels.

 * You men do not understand the delights of a glance, of a pressure of the hand... but as for me, I swear to you that, when I listen to your voice, I feel such a deep, strange bliss that the most passionate kisses could not take its place.

 * My whole past life I live again in memory, and, involuntarily, I ask myself: 'why have I lived - for what purpose was I born?'... A purpose there must have been, and, surely, mine was an exalted destiny, because I feel that within my soul are powers immeasurable... But I was not able to discover that destiny, I allowed myself to be carried away by the allurements of passions, inane and ignoble. From their crucible I issued hard and cold as iron, but gone for ever was the glow of noble aspirations - the fairest flower of life. And, from that time forth, how often have I not played the part of an axe in the hands of fate! Like an implement of punishment, I have fallen upon the head of doomed victims, often without malice, always without pity... To none has my love brought happiness, because I have never sacrificed anything for the sake of those I have loved: for myself alone I have loved - for my own pleasure. I have only satisfied the strange craving of my heart, greedily draining their feelings, their tenderness, their joys, their sufferings - and I have never been able to sate myself. I am like one who, spent with hunger, falls asleep in exhaustion and sees before him sumptuous viands and sparkling wines; he devours with rapture the aerial gifts of the imagination, and his pains seem somewhat assuaged. Let him but awake: the vision vanishes - twofold hunger and despair remain! And tomorrow, it may be, I shall die!... And there will not be left on earth one being who has understood me completely. Some will consider me worse, others, better, than I have been in reality... Some will say: 'he was a good fellow'; others: 'a villain.' And both epithets will be false. After all this, is life worth the trouble? And yet we live - out of curiosity! We expect something new... How absurd, and yet how vexatious!

Poems

 * ...man, this ruler over general evil, With a perfidious heart, with a lying tongue...
 * "The Cemetery" (1830)

 * What is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple — without a divinity!
 * "The Demon" (1830)

 * And everything that he saw before him He despised or hated.
 * "The Demon" (1830)

 * I want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.
 * "The Demon" (1830)

 * Alone, as before, in the universe Without hope and without love!..
 * "The Demon" (1830)

 * The chain of young life is broken, The journey is ended, the hour has struck, it is time to leave, Time to go where there is no future, No past, no eternity, no years; Where there are no expectations, no passions, No bitter tears, no fame, no honour; Where memory sleeps deeply And the heart in its narrow coffin home Does not feel the worm gnawing it.
 * "Death" (1830 or 1831)

 * I do not love you; the former dream Of passions and torments has passed by; But your image in my soul Is still alive, although it is powerless; Although I abandon myself to other dreams, I still cannot forget it; So an abandoned temple is still a temple, A dethroned idol — still a god!
 * "I do not love you..." (1831)

 * I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom...
 * "Fate brought us together by chance..." (1832)

 * For what did the creator prepare me, Why did he so terribly contradict The hopes of my youth?...
 * "My future is in darkness..." (1837)

 * To the earth I gave the earthly tribute Of love, hopes, good and evil; I am ready to begin another life, I am silent and wait: the time has come; I shall leave no brother in this world, And dark and cold embrace My tired soul; Like a premature fruit, deprived of sap, It withered in the storms of fate Under the burning sun of existence.
 * "I look upon the future with fear..." (1838)

 * And I, as I lived, in an alien land Will die a slave and an orphan.
 * "The Novice" (1839)

 * The surrounding forest, as though in a mist, Was blue in the powder of smoke. But there, far off, in a disordered ridge, Which was yet eternally proud and calm, Stretched the mountains — and Kazbek Gleamed with its sharp peak. And with secret, heartfelt sorrow I thought: 'Pitiable man. What does he want! The sky is clear, Beneath it there is much room for all, But constantly and vainly He alone wages war — why?'
 * "I am writing to you..." (1840)

 * What good are the passions? For sooner or later their sweet sickness ends when reason speaks up; And life, if surveyed with cold-blooded regard is stupid and empty — a joke.
 * "Lonely and Sad" (1840)

 * No, it is not you I love so ardently, The glitter of your beauty is not for me: I love in you my past suffering And my perished youth.
 * "No, it is not you I love so ardently..." (1841)

''
 * In people's eyes I read Pages of malice and sin.
 * "The Prophet" (1841)
 * Farewell, unwashed Russia, Land of slaves, land of masters, And you, blue uniforms, And you, people, devoted to them. Perhaps beyond the wall of the Caucasus, I will hide from your pashas, From their all-seeing eye, From their all-hearing ears.
 * —Published by Russky Arkhiv. Historical and literary collection (1890) Translation by Anatoly Liberman.
 * Original: ''Прощай, немытая Россiя, Страна рабовъ, страна господъ,  И вы, мундиры голубые,  И ты, имъ преданный народъ. Быть можетъ, за стѣной Кавказа  Сокроюсь отъ твоихъ пашей, Отъ ихъ всевидящаго глаза,  Отъ ихъ всеслышащихъ ушей.

Quotes about Lermontov

 * I knew practically the whole of Lermontov by heart, and such writers as Chernyshevsky, Lev Tolstoi and Uspensky had, somehow, become part of my life.
 * Nadezhda Krupskaya "Reminiscences of Lenin by His Relatives" (1956)

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Nothing here. See User:ZS instead.

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I have reverted your removal of links. Even if the links don't work, various internet archives might still be available, and so I have restored them. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:42, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Godfrey Higgins

Headers misspelled and misnamed, too much vertical whitespace ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 16:11, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Gerald Durrell

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 * My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.

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Talk:Hannah Arendt

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'''The law of progress holds that everything now must be better than what was there before. Don’t you see if you want something better, and better, and better, you lose the good. The good is no longer even being measured.'''

maybe a better image available for "not Nazi, not Communist"?
For the quote "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist" ... why is there an image, there of convinced Communists? Specifically, she was implicating the sort of person who is so delusional that they see the word night and think it means day. Or see the words "not the convinced Communist" and think Communist. :)

Also I was wondering why the quotes aren't in temporal order. Is there a method to this madness? Know Einstein (talk) 01:13, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

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 * Poetlister 16:55, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Henry Steele Commager

Introduction uses bullets for no good reason ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 16:14, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * This appears to have been taken care of. ~ Ningauble (talk) 15:44, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * These require citations to adequate sources before being placed into the main article.

 * Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

 * Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

 * Henry S. Commager said that the US Constitution was the best chance for political freedom, calling it a "perfect blueprint."

 * A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow."

 * History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

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Talk:Hermann Laroche

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Hermaan LaRoche
Hermaan LaRoche is my great great grandfather. I was not aware that apart from being life long friend of Tchikovsky and being an important music critic in his time, that he was also a composer. Does anyone know what he composed and if it is anywhere available?

Michael Lasoff mlasoff@xs4all.nl

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Talk:Paulo Coelho

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 * These quotes have been attributed to Coelho on the internet, but with no published source yet located. Anyone who knows where they might originate is invited to provide this information; until then these should not be placed within the article. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:50, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

 * Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

 * We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

 * We all get prepared to kill dragons and end up being eaten by the ants of the details, which we've never given attention.

 * Don't you ever allow doubts to paralyze your actions.

 * Men begin to reject simple things, and to write tracts, interpretations, and philosophical studies. They also begin to feel that they know a better way.

 * Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy.

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Talk:Randall Terry

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What ATF? --219.180.168.95 14:52, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Looking a little further, I think it's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

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 * It is time for Christians to rise up against the ATF.
 * March 1993
 * I believe that (Bill) Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.
 * December 1997
 * When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we'll execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed.
 * Regarding abortionists

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 * "La musique est un bruit qui coûte cher."
 * Translation: Music is an expensive noise.

 * "Petit pays, petit esprit."
 * Translation: Small country, small minds.
 * Commenting on the unwillingness of the parliament and people of Belgium to engage in colonial adventures.

Adam Hochschild, writer of the famous book 'Leopold's ghost', quotes Petit pays, petit esprit. as one of Leopolds famous quotes, in this video: https://youtu. be/rLyZGTwmcRA?t=339 i dont know if that is enough source? KingBaudoin (talk) 00:14, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Belgium needs a Colony
I earlier shared a quote on this page from the book "Zaïre, Ketens van Koper (translated: Zaire, Chains of Copper) the same book has another Quote on the same page, Leopolds is quoted saying "Belgium needs a Colony" it just says that leopold said this when he was 26 years old, but it gives no further context, of where, why and how he said it, so i decieded not to put it on the page, but if in case someone knows anything more about this, please share, thanks. KingBaudoin (talk) 00:13, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

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Talk:John D. MacDonald

Introduction too long, uses quotation marks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 16:20, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

A Purple Place for Dying
Partial quote: "Education is something that should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefore." Shouldn't that be "therefor"? JDM didn't make English errors. It might be a misprint in the book. I don't have a copy at hand. Also, I remember that the final few sentences, where MacDonald breaks the fourth wall with the reader, are worthy of being quoted here. Edit: Added it.Wastrel Way (talk)Eric Wastrel Way (talk) 14:19, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure all the boldface formatting is a good thing, or even necessary. Wastrel Way (talk)Eric Wastrel Way (talk) 14:44, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

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 * Fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuckity fuck, and rememeber, when I say golly, I really mean fuck.
 * Bill Gates is just a white Persian cat and a monocle away from being a villain in a Bond movie.
 * Al Gore, there's some stiff body language, huh? The guy makes Ed Sullivan look like an autofellatio freak.
 * This guy makes Max Cady look like Atticus Finch. Pat Buchanan is so homophobic that he blames global warming on The AIDS Quilt.
 * Dan Quayle's head is emptier than a jack-in-the-box in downtown Seattle. He shouldn't been the second-in-command to the Hakawi tribe from F Troop, much less the most powerful nation on the face of this planet.
 * If you're saying you didn't know smoking was bad for you, then you're lying through the hole in your trachea. How could you not know smoking was bad for you?  IT'S FUCKING SMOKE!  Would you stand over a campfire and take deep giant breaths?
 * His head was emptier than the streets of Miami, Florida during Oktoberfest.'' (On Jeff Gilloly, the man who clumsily assaulted skater Nancy Kerrigan in 1994)
 * "I've always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting pageantry of the adjective and the flitting evanescence of the adverb, all kept safe and orderly by those reliable little policemen, punctuation marks. Wow! Think I got my ass kicked in high school?
 * Hey, I just dropped my mistletoe. I think it fell down the back of my shirt!

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Talk:William Howard Taft

Uses quotation marks, "attributed" section misnamed ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 16:28, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

I want to add this Taft quote, “Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.” Unfortunately, I have been unable to locate a source.
 * Try Lebovits, G. (2004). Free at Last from Obscurity: Clarity-Part II. Dondervogel 2 (talk) 22:47, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

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Talk:W. H. Murray

Uses old header style instead of introduction, uses quotation marks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 16:29, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:William Makepeace Thackeray

No distinction between sourced/attributed, no adequate intro, no bullets, no external links section for wp box ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 16:29, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Went ahead and added sourced quotes for vanity fair (more may come since it is the current book club project). Put existing quotes under attributed until it is found where they are from (it's late right now or I would do it myself, I'll do it later if no one bothers to) --jake 06:29, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Unsourced
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to William Makepeace Thackeray. --Antiquary 18:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

 * Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

 * Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

 * When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

 * "The years have brought you their finest gift if they have taught you to be kind." (Someone attributed it to him; it certain sounds familiar in general; but no such quote on internet.)

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Talk:Wyatt Earp (film)

Mislink in intro, no distinction between sourced/attributed, no external links section for wp box ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 16:30, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

I restored the redirect. I tried to start a Wyatt Earp page--it reflects poorly on Wikiquote that there is a page on the Wyatt Earp movie but not on Wyatt Earp the man--but someone placed a delete tag on my stub. --Cannibal1421 07:47, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

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Talk:Albert Pierrepoint

No adequate introduction, no external links section for wp box, uses quotation marks, no bullets for quotations ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 16:31, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people...The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.

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Talk:C. S. Lewis

Letter concerning Narnia adaptations
I found what is supposedly a letter from C.S. Lewis to the BBC calling a TV or movie adaptation using live actors or by Disney "blasphemy".

Blasphemy in Narnia

Should the text of this letter be added? I am slightly unsure of this letter's authenticity, maybe someone can help me check this? --Bakkster Man 20:27, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

It appears legit, but I think it is out of context and would probably be misleading (and, therefore, should not be added). His opposition was to (specifically) a fake Aslan which, he felt, would be blasphemous (due to Aslan's metaphorical reference to Christ). Though I have yet to see the new film, I have read several Lewis scholars who believe that he would have had no objection to its portrayal of Aslan. --MB

Unsourced quotes
Hi, guys, I'm reading now some of Lewis' essays I approve that unsourced qoutes All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. and '''It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn`t matter.''' but still - I cannot identify which essay they were in. :-)

I think its from one of his papers in Scewtape proposes a toast.

Nope; it's from Mere Christianity; I've just finished reading it, and I remember that bit.

It's from A Grief Observed, at the end of the first chapter.

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

Lewis quote or not?
Is this a Lewis quote:

"Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone."

If so, can we source it and add it?

It is good.

209.179.168.53 20:20, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

The Chronicles of Narnia were originally published in an order other than that listed on the main C. S. Lewis page
This is a serious pet peeve of mine. When originally released, the Chronicles of Narnia were NOT in chronological order, as they are now usually sold. Originally, the order was this:

 * 1)  The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
 * 2)  Prince Caspian
 * 3)  The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
 * 4)  The Silver Chair
 * 5)  The Horse and His Boy
 * 6)  The Magician's Nephew
 * 7)  The Last Battle.

As you can see, most the list is arranged differently. While yes, the other arrangement of the books is in Narnia-time order, they really make better sense read in this sequence. And there is a nice symmetry in reading about Narnia's creation in The Magician's Nephew immediately before seeing its end in The Last Battle.

(Author's note: I was unsure of how to cite my reference on this, said reference being a 20-something year old copy of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, one of a box set I received as a child.  Its back cover clearly lists the books in the series in the order I gave... but I am unsure of what information from the copyright page to include so others can see my work.)

 * In my opinion, they can go in either order. One is by publication date, the other by story-chronology. C.S. Lewis even sanctioned the story-chronological order. It does make most sense to read it in story-chronological order, but it's slightly less fun that way, I think. Part of the fun of reading the Magician's Nephew is at the end when he mentions how the wardrobe came to be. Me, other than reading the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe first, I read them all in story-chonological order. I'm glad I read the Lion first. Having the background is hardly necessary, other than the explanation of why Aslan had to die, maybe. D. F. Schmidt 04:43, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Moving page?
Should the Chronicles of Narnia have their own page? Would this not be better than having them all on C.S. Lewis's page? After all, many people are not interested in C.S. Lewis's other works, and for anybody just wanting to see the Narnia quotes, they are difficult to find. I am a new user so maybe I don't understand what's going on here! Darth Newdar 12:21, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, as nobody has replied, I shall make a page called "The Chronicles of Narnia" in the next few days Darth Newdar 12:33, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a good idea to me. It is a large enough sub-section for a separate article and, as you note, is a significant area of interest in itself. ~ Ningauble 15:50, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

 * I have done so. Please find the new page at The Chronicles of Narnia Darth Newdar 19:15, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

"I came into Christianity kicking and screaming"
From Dec 2005, until May 2009, the article C. S. Lewis, attributed the quote: "I came into Christianity kicking and screaming", to Lewis. I couldn't find a source for this quote, so I removed it. It may be the case that the quote is a mangled version of a quote from Surprised by Joy (p. 229), where Lewis, in discussing his conversion, likens himself to a

 * prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance to escape

I do find numerous occurrences of the original quote on the web, but It looks to me as if most of these come directly or indirectly from the Wikipedia article. Using Google Books, I find no occurrence of the original quote, although I do find references to "kicking and screaming" in quotes in reference to Lewis' conversion, but again I can't find it in any cited source.

The quote was added here, and to me, the wording used there suggests that the quote is a continuation of a passage containing the quotes "In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed"' and "the most reluctant convert of all time", (which in fact come earlier in the same passage as the "kicking, struggling" quote above.  This supports, I think, a mangled quote hypothesis.

Can anyone add anything to this?

Paul August 15:37, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Bold text in quotes
Hi, I'm a noob to wikiquotes and I've noticed that a lot of quotes have bold text highlighting what someone thinks is important. I'm not disagreeing with whether the bolded text is important or not, but I think it looks kind of tacky. Is this an accepted practice on wikiquotes or can I edit it? Perelandriansage 13:51, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
 * It is long accepted practice here — and though there are occasional disagreements or shifts in what people consider is most appropriate to place in bold, the practice has been maintained on most of the most prominent pages for authors and many works since 2003. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 14:07, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I don't want to rush in and destroy what everyone else has been doing for a while Perelandriansage 15:42, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Do you know the source of "Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn."
Hello, I am trying to source "Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn." Does anyone know where it was said or written? Any help you give me is greatly appreciated.
 * It appears, attributed to Lewis, but without citations to an original source as yet located, also in the forms "Experience: That most brutal of teachers, But you learn, do you ever learn." and "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn — my God do you learn!" I have no further time for searching right now, but might do more investigation within a day or two. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:01, 20 November 2011 (UTC) + tweaks

I've been doing some research on that particular quote and can't find any reliable source. It's everywhere online, always referencing it to Lewis, but never with explanation as to where he actually wrote or said it. The best lead I found was a similar quote that came from a film about CS Lewis, called Shadowlands, written by William Nicholson. Apparently, the quote manifests itself in the film as: "Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast." It's possible that this is where the quote came from, and never really from Lewis.

Does anyone else have any more information to confirm or deny this?

I found this reference when researching this quote: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (San Diego: Harvest Books, 2002)

This C.S. Lewis quote is attributted to him, is it real?
I see this quote attributed to C.S. Lewis all over the place. Did he really say it? If so what is the source of the quote?

"You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile."

Lewis (paraphrased) quote or not ?
A Priest referenced C.S. Lewis (to the following paraphrase) during a discussion we were having, yet I can't confirm it:

"Evil is allowing another to be sacrificed in order to maintain ones denial".

Can anyone help? I would much appreciate any input.

Evangelization quote
I've come across the following quote online but I couldn't find a source for it: 'A person must court a virgin differently than a divorcee. One welcomes the charming words; the other needs a demonstration of love to overcome inbuilt skepticism.' Does anyone know if it's real and if so where he said it? –– In fact, there's a similar line in 'De descriptione temporum': "A post-Christian man is not a Pagan; you might as well think that a married woman recovers her virginity by divorce."

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