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Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood (May 23, 1799 – May 3, 1845) was an English humorist and poet.

1820s

 * His death which happened in his berth, At forty-odd befell: They went and told the sexton, and The sexton tolled the bell.
 * Faithless Sally Brown, st. 17 (1826).

 * I remember, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon Nor brought too long a day; But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away.
 * I Remember, I Remember, st. 1 (1827).

 * I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from Heaven Than when I was a boy.
 * I Remember, I Remember, st. 4.

 * And there is ev'n a happiness That makes the heart afraid!
 * Ode to Melancholy, st. 6 (1827).

 * There's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy.
 * Ode to Melancholy, st. 8.

 * But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart.
 * The Lady's Dream, st. 16 (1827).

 * I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like Silence, listening To silence.
 * Ode. Autmn, st. 1 (1827).

 * Straight down the Crooked Lane, And all round the Square.
 * A Plain Direction, st. 1.

1830s

 * Never go to France Unless you know the lingo, If you do, like me, You will repent, by jingo.
 * French and English, st. 1 (1839).

 * For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.
 * Morning Meditations (1839).

Must be a spoon.
 * A man that's fond precociously of stirring,
 * Morning Meditations (1839), St. 10.

 * No sun—no moon—no morn—no noon, No dawn—no dusk—no proper time of day, No warmth—no cheerfulness—no healthful ease, No road, no street, no t' other side the way, No comfortable feel in any member— No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!
 * No!.

1840s

 * Seem'd washing his hands with invisible soap In imperceptible water.
 * Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg. Her Christening, st. 10 (1841-1843).

 * Oh bed! oh bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
 * Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg. Her Dream, st. 7.

 * He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.
 * Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg. Her Dream (Part the Third, 1840).

 * One more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashion'd so slenderly Young, and so fair!
 * The Bridge of Sighs (1844), st. 1-2.

 * Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!
 * The Bridge of Sighs (1844), st. 9.

 * Even God's providence Seeming estranged.
 * The Bridge of Sighs (1844).

My feet are parched—my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust; But faint the flagging Zephyr springs, With dry Macadam on its wings, And turns me "dust to dust."
 * What joy have I in June's return?
 * Ode Imitated from Horace (1844), st. 2.

The Song of the Shirt (1843)

 * With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread— Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the “Song of the Shirt.”
 * St. 1.

 * Sewing at once a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt.

 * No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief.

 * My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

 * Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work—work—work, Till the stars shine through the roof!
 * St. 2.

 * Oh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!
 * St. 4.

 * Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!
 * St. 5.

The Dream of Eugene Aram

 * 'Twas in the prime of summer-time An evening calm and cool, And four-and-twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school: There were some that ran and some that leapt, Like troutlets in a pool.

 * And lo! the universal air Seemed lit with ghastly flame; Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes Were looking down in blame.

 * My head was like an ardent coal, My heart as solid ice; My wretched, wretched soul, I knew, Was at the Devil's price: A dozen times I groaned: the dead Had never groaned but twice!

 * That very night while gentle sleep The urchin's eyelids kissed, Two stern-faced men set out from Lynn, Through the cold and heavy mist; And Eugene Aram walked between, With gyves upon his wrist.

Quotes reported in other works

 * There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,— In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found.
 * Sonnet, Silence; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro.
 * The Death-Bed; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.
 * The Death-Bed; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 10th ed. (1919).

 * She stood breast-high amid the corn Clasped by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won.
 * Ruth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * Thus she stood amid the stooks, Praising God with sweetest looks.
 * Ruth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 10th ed. (1919).

 * When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?
 * Spring it is cheery; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * Oh would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now, And have a good cry!
 * A Table of Errata; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
 * Her Honeymoon; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * Home-made dishes that drive one from home.
 * Her Honeymoon; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
 * Her Moral; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould.
 * Her Moral; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * How widely its agencies vary,— To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,— As even its minted coins express, Now stamped with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.
 * Her Moral; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * Another tumble! That's his precious nose!
 * Parental Ode to my infant Son; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves.
 * The Season; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * A wife who preaches in her gown, And lectures in her night-dress.
 * The Surplice Question; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * Peace and rest at length have come All the day's long toil is past, And each heart is whispering, "Home, Home at last."
 * Home at last; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms; But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms.
 * Faithless Nellie Gray; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * Pity it is to slay the meanest thing.
 * Plea of the Midsummer Fairies; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * No solemn sanctimonious face I pull, Nor think I'm pious when I'm only bilious; Nor study in my sanctum supercilious, To frame a Sabbath Bill or forge a Bull.
 * Ode to Rae Wilson; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * Each cloud-capt mountain is a holy altar; An organ breathes in every grove; And the full heart 's a Psalter, Rich in deep hymn of gratitude and love.
 * Ode to Rae Wilson; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * That fierce thing They call a conscience.
 * Lamia, Scene vii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * 'Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce, Has lived so long, and yet no knowledge he Has had, till lately, of Phrenology— A science that by simple dint of Head-combing he should find a hint of, When scratching o'er those little pole-hills The faculties throw up like mole hills.
 * Thomas Hood, Craniology, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 597.

Quotes about Thomas Hood

 * The things we liked most of course were the things that more or less selected or symbolized our own feelings of conditions and life in general. For example, I recall that we liked Thomas Hood's "The Sound of the ship" Now, nothing could come closer to the way we felt than that particular poem. We also read and managed an interest in that other one, "The Bridge of Sighs" also by Thomas Hood. Later, we found "The Masque of Anarchy" by Shelley, and of course in addition to that there were the Jewish poets, like Rosenfeld and Edelshtat. They were magnificent in their writing, in their poetry depicting the life of the people in the shop.
 * Pauline Newman (labor activist), Interview (1965) in Jewish Radicals: A Documentary Reader

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Military character

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US Generals

 * Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well. ~ General Dwight D. Eisenhower
 * 19stars by Edgar F. Puryear Jr.

 * Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is sort of an all inclusive thing. If a man has character everyone has confidence in him. Soldiers must have confidence in their leader. ~ General Omar N. Bradley
 * 19stars by Edgar F. Puryear Jr.

 * I would put character way up on the list. If you want to select an officer for your command you want one who is confident of his abilities, who is loyal and who has good character. It is the man of good character that I am going to seek out. There are a lot of good people who know the 'smart' way of getting things done, but they also ride roughshod over people that they are supposed to be working with. I don't want that. ~ General Mark Clark
 * 19stars by Edgar F. Puryear Jr.

 * Character as we used to say when I was in elementary school, is what you are. Reputation is what others think you are. The reason that some fail to climb the ladder of success, or of leadership if you want to call it that, is that there is no difference between reputation and character. The two do not always coincide. A man may be considered to have sterling character. Opportunity might come to that man; but if he has the reputation for something he is not, he may fail that opportunity. I think character is the foundation of successful leadership. ~ General Lucian K. Truscott
 * 19stars by Edgar F. Puryear Jr.

 * You can't be wishy-washy as a military leader. You must be able to size up the situation and make a decision. Indecisiveness is weakness of character. You must be able to have confidence in what a leader tells you. ~ General Carl Spaatz
 * 19stars by Edgar F. Puryear Jr.

 * I would place character as the absolutely number one requirement in leadership. By character, I mean primarily integrity. A man whose superiors and, even more important, whose subordinates can depend upon that leader taking action based on honesty and judgment. If he does not base his action on honor, he is worthless as a leader. ~ General J. Lawton Collins
 * 19stars by Edgar F. Puryear Jr.

 * There are many qualities that go into a man of sterling character. I don't know how to break it down. A man of high character has integrity, he is honest, he is reliable, he is straightforward in dealing with people. He is loyal to his family, his friends, his superiors. ~ General Wiiliam H. Simpson
 * 19stars by Edgar F. Puryear Jr.

 * I get accused all the time of using the word integrity when I mean character and character when I mean integrity. I think character is everything in leadership. It is what we try to build in all our young officers. It means the truth to me. That's the only way I can put it. To stand up and tell the truth and not be in the gray areas. ~ General Jacob Devers
 * 19stars by Edgar F. Puryear Jr.

 * An officer who stands up under fire, who has the courage to defend his convictions, not arrogantly, not stubbornly, but intelligently. Someone who does not believe he knows all the answers, who will listen to others with different experiences and different knowledge. It means a deep sense of loyalty. Unless an officer has character nothing he can do can cause his men to love and respect him. ~ General Albert Wedemeyer
 * 19stars by Edgar F. Puryear Jr.

 * Character plays a tremendous role in military leadership. It's a combination of many things -- personality, clean living, presence. I just don't know; it's a very difficult word to describe because, as everyone knows, leaders come in all shapes and sizes and all sorts of personalities. I don't suppose I ever knew two men whom I knew well who differed as much as General MacArthur and General Patton, yet both were tremendous leaders of mass armies, both were men of great character. ~ General Anthony "Nuts" McAuliffe
 * 19stars by Edgar F. Puryear Jr.

Quotes

 * Ah! my wang is hateful to you; or is it I, madam, that enjoys that privilege?
 * John Esten Cooke, Captain Ratcliffe in Hilt to Hilt: or, Days and Nights on the Banks of the Shenandoah in the Autumn of 1864 (Autumn, 1864)

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Match Point

Match Point is a 2005 film about a former tennis pro who falls for a beautiful woman who turns out to be his friend's fiancee.
 * Written and directed by Woody Allen.

There are no little secrets. taglines

Chris Wilton

 * The man who said "I'd rather be lucky than good" saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net, and for a split second, it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck, it goes forward, and you win. Or maybe it doesn't, and you lose.
 * You can learn to push the guilt under the rug and go on. Otherwise, it overwhelms you.
 * The innocent are sometimes slain to make way for grander schemes. You were collateral damage.
 * Sophocles said, that to never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.
 * It would be fitting if I were apprehended... and punished. At least there would be some small sign of justice - some small measure of hope for the possibility of meaning.

Dialogue

 * Christopher "Chris" Wilton: So, what's a beautiful young American doing mingling among the British upper class?
 * Nola Rice: Has anyone told you you play an aggressive game?
 * Christopher "Chris" Wilton: Has anyone told you you have very sensual lips?
 * Nola Rice: Extremely aggressive.
 * Christopher "Chris" Wilton: I'm naturally competitive.

 * Nola: Men seem to think I'd be somebody very special.
 * Wilton: And are you?
 * Nola: Well, no one's ever asked for their money back.

 * Chloe Hewett Wilton: Chris's dad was a bit of a religious fanatic.
 * Christopher "Chris" Wilton: After he lost both his legs, he found Jesus.
 * Tom Hewett: God... Sorry, but it just doesn't seem like a fair trade.

 * Detective Banner: [Holds up Nola's diary] Have you seen this before?
 * Christopher "Chris" Wilton: No.
 * Detective Banner: Were you aware that Nola Rice kept a diary?
 * Christopher "Chris Wilton: [defeated] No.
 * Detective Banner: Do you still claim that the last time you saw Nola Rice was at the Tate Modem over a year ago?
 * Christopher "Chris" Wilton: Look, you can't blame me for trying to hide the fact that I had an affair with her. I know that it's not the most honorable thing to cheat on your wife, but that does not make me a murderer!

 * [last lines, as the Hewett family gathers around Chris and Chloe's newborn baby]
 * Alec Hewett: To Terrance.
 * Eleanor Hewett, Chloe Hewett Wilton, Heather: To Terrance.
 * Alec Hewett: And all that sail on him.

Taglines

 * There are no little secrets.

Cast

 * Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Chris Wilton
 * Scarlett Johansson - Nola Rice
 * Emily Mortimer - Chloe Hewett Wilton
 * Matthew Goode - Tom Hewett
 * Brian Cox - Alec Hewett
 * Penelope Wilton - Eleanor Hewett
 * James Nesbitt - Detective Banner
 * Ewen Bremner - Detective Dowd

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what about the mahjong quote. where is that? Colipon 06:10, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

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Used To Be

I was once the Ocean, but now I am only the sand.

I was once the Wind, but now just a wisp of a cloud.

I was once a great Mountain, but now only the dust at its feet.

I was once a great Oak Tree, but now I am just a seed.

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Tony Russomanno

©1997

The ocean could not exist but for the sand that embraces all its moods.

The wind would not be if not for the moisture rising.

The mountains would not be except dust the building blocks of life.

The Oak tree would not be were it not for the seed the beginning of life. --TREX 06:36, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

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War on terror

The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a global counterterrorism military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks and is also the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars. The main targets of the campaign were militant Islamist and Salafi jihadist armed organisations such as al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and their international affiliates, which were waging military insurgencies to overthrow governments of various Muslim-majority countries. Other major targets included the Ba'athist regime in Iraq, which was deposed during an invasion in 2003, and various militant factions that fought during the ensuing insurgency.

Quotes

 * The so called war against terrorism is in fact a war between two fanaticisms. One is theocratic, the other positivist and secular. One is the fervent belief of a defensive minority, the other the unquestioned assumption of an amorphous, confident elite. One sets out to kill, the other plunders, leaves and lets die. One is strict and the other lax. One brooks no argument, the other 'communicates and tries to spin into every corner of the world. One claims the right to spill innocent blood, the other to sell the earth's entire water.
 * Outrageous to compare them.
 * John Berger, 'Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance', Verso.

 * It made sense to get bin Laden; it made no sense to try and unify Afghanistan. It made no sense in my view to engage in thinking that in Iraq they had a nuclear weapon.
 * Joe Biden as interviewed by Erin Burnett in Erin Burnett OutFront, (5/8/2024)

 * For whose benefit these endless wars in a region that holds nothing vital to America, - save oil, which the Arabs must sell us to survive - ? Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud. What these neoconservatives seek is to conscript American blood to make the world safe for Israel. They want the peace of the sword imposed on Islam and American soldiers to die if necessary to impose it.
 * Pat Buchanan, "Whose War? The Loudest Clique Behind the President's Policy" The American Conservative, (March 24, 2003)

 * We charge that a cabal of polemicists and public officials seek to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America's interests. We charge them with colluding with Israel to ignite those wars and destroy the Oslo Accords. We charge them with deliberately damaging U.S. relations with every state in the Arab world that defies Israel or supports the Palestinian people's right to a homeland of their own. We charge that they have alienated friends and allies all over the Islamic and Western world through their arrogance, hubris, and bellicosity.
 * Pat Buchanan, "Whose War? The Loudest Clique Behind the President's Policy" The American Conservative, (March 24, 2003)

 * It's nonsense to talk about the war on Islamic terrorism as a clash of civilisations. The distinction is between civilisation and chaos. Whatever people may claim - and the desire to cut through the political processes can be very powerful - there is never any justification for violence.
 * Michael Burleigh, As quoted in “Michael Burleigh: The reluctant guru,” John Crace, The Guardian, March 10, 2008

 * Our war on terror begins with al-Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.
 * George W. Bush Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People (20 September 2001)

 * Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
 * George W. Bush Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People (20 September 2001)

 * This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while.
 * George W. Bush, as quoted in "Kenneth R. Bazinet, "A Fight Vs. Evil, Bush And Cabinet Tell U.S."". Daily News (New York). 17 September 2001.

 * What we have found in Afghanistan confirms that, far from ending there, our war against terror is only beginning... tens of thousands of trained terrorists are still at large. These enemies view the entire world as a battlefield, and we must pursue them wherever they are. So long as training camps operate, so long as nations harbor terrorists, freedom is at risk. And America and our allies must not, and will not, allow it....Our military has put the terror training camps of Afghanistan out of business, yet camps still exist in at least a dozen countries. A terrorist underworld — including groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Jaish-i-Mohammed — operates in remote jungles and deserts, and hides in the centers of large cities....But some governments will be timid in the face of terror. And make no mistake about it: If they do not act, America will.
 * George W. Bush, State of the Union Address (29 January 2002)

 * The recent arrests that our fellow citizens are now learning about are a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to — to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation.... The — this country is safer than it was prior to 9/11. We've taken a lot of measures to protect the American people. But obviously we're still not completely safe, because there are people that still plot and people who want to harm us for what we believe in. It is a mistake to believe there is no threat to the United States of America.
 * George W. Bush, on a British airline bombing plot (10 August 2006)

 * The war we fight today is more than a military conflict; it is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century. On one side are those who believe in the values of freedom and moderation – the right of all people to speak, and worship, and live in liberty. And on the other side are those driven by the values of tyranny and extremism; the right of a self-appointed few to impose their fanatical views on all the rest. As veterans, you have seen this kind of enemy before. They're successors to Fascists, to Nazis, to Communists, and other totalitarians of the 20th century. And history shows what the outcome will be: This war will be difficult; this war will be long; and this war will end in the defeat of the terrorists and totalitarians, and a victory for the cause of freedom and liberty.
 * George W. Bush, at the American Legion National Convention in Salt Lake City, UT (31 August 2006)

 * In order to win this war, we need to understand that the terrorists and extremists are opportunists. They will grab onto any cause to incite hatred and to justify the killing of innocent men, women and children. If we weren't in Iraq, they would be using our relationship and friendship with Israel as a reason to recruit, or the Crusades, or cartoons as a reason to commit murder. They recruit based upon lies and excuses. And they murder because of their raw desire for power. They hope to impose their dominion over the broader Middle East and establish a radical Islamic empire where millions are ruled according to their hateful ideology. We know this because al-Qaeda has told us. The terrorist Zawahiri, number two man in the al-Qaeda team, al-Qaeda network, he said, we'll proceed with several incremental goals. The first stage is to expel the Americans from Iraq; the second stage is to establish an Islamic authority, then develop it and support it until it achieves the level of caliphate; the third stage, extend the jihad wave to secular countries neighboring Iraq; and the fourth stage, the clash with Israel. This is the words of the enemy. The President of the United States and the Congress must listen carefully to what the enemy says in order to be able to protect you. It makes sense for us to take their words seriously if our most important job is the security of the United States. Mister Zawahiri has laid out their plan. That's why they attacked us on September the 11th. That's why they fight us in Iraq today. And that is why they must be defeated.
 * George W. Bush, remarks at Bob Riley for Governor Luncheon in Alabama (28 September 2006), as quoted in "FLASHBACK 2006: Media Elites Slam Bush For Predicting Rise Of Islamic Caliphate In Iraq" (24 May 2016), The Daily Caller

 * There are some Arabs who think that the Germans did the right thing by the Jews. This makes it easy to recruit Arab terrorist.
 * John le Carré, interview with Ramona Koval. The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National. (19 November 2008)

 * There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.
 * John le Carré, interview with Ramona Koval. The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National. (19 November 2008)

 * We were not faced (in the cold war) in a conflict with people who are prepared to die for their cause. We weren't in conflict with people whose idea is to kill as many as they could.
 * John le Carré, interview with Ramona Koval. The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National. (19 November 2008)

 * In the war on terror we did everything wrong that we could have done.
 * John le Carré, interview with Ramona Koval. The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National. (19 November 2008)

 * You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.
 * John le Carré, interview with Ramona Koval. The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National. (19 November 2008)

 * To operate an intelligence network against the Islamist terror is terribly difficult because they don't have a central command and control center such as we would understand. Therefore you cannot penetrate at the top and find out what will happen on the ground.
 * John le Carré, interview with Ramona Koval. The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National. (19 November 2008)

 * Because we are so unfamiliar with the motivation of the people we are dealing with, we are more afraid of them than we need to be.
 * John le Carré, interview with Ramona Koval. The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National. (19 November 2008)

 * On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.
 * John le Carré, interview with Ramona Koval. The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National. (19 November 2008)

 * Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
 * Noam Chomsky in 9/11 (2001).

 * You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.
 * David Cross, on his comedy album  (2002).

 * We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security — and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use. Similarly, we must abandon the traditional approach of defining security in terms of boundaries — city walls, border patrols, racial and religious groupings. The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources. In such a world, we must combat terrorism with an infectious security culture that crosses borders — an inclusive approach to security based on solidarity and the value of human life. In such a world, weapons of mass destruction have no place.
 * Mohamed ElBaradei, Saving Ourselves From Self-Destruction (2004), Op-Ed essay published in The New York Times (12 February 2004).

 * Al Qaeda has failed in its goals. The United States has succeeded, not so much in winning the war as in preventing the Islamists from winning, and, from a geopolitical perspective, that is good enough.
 * George Friedman, The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century, p. 31

 * During the 1990s, the Middle East had witnessed a decade of relative calm, in part thanks to the détente between Iran and Saudi Arabia but also as a result of Pax Americana—post–Cold War, the United States was the unchallenged hegemon. The Saudi-Iran rapprochement had yielded more than anyone expected, including a security agreement. When Saudi Arabia’s defense minister visited Tehran in May 1999, his Iranian counterpart declared: “The sky’s the limit for Iranian–Saudi Arabian relations and cooperation as the whole of Islamic Iran’s military might is in the service of our Saudi Muslim brothers.” President Bill Clinton was basking in the glory of a unipolar world and America was prospering as the indispensable nation. Throughout his presidency and until his very last months in power, Clinton was working on peace between Arabs and Israelis—succeeding only with the Jordanians. Even though people like Nasr in Egypt had their lives upended, Iraq was under UN embargo, and bombs had gone off in the Saudi kingdom, the decade carried some promise. It all came to an end on 9/11. President George W. Bush went to war against the Taliban, who were sheltering Osama bin Laden. After liberating Afghanistan, America declared a global war on terror, a frenzy of liberation. Bush decided to finish what his father had begun—he went after Saddam.
 * Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (2020)

 * The inability of the United States to comprehend what it was becoming involved in when... it declared a Global War on Terror, has to be reckoned one of the singular failures of national security policy over the past twenty years. Not only did the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq make bad situations worse, but the fact that no one is Washington was able to define “victory” and think in terms of an exit strategy has meant that the wars and instability are still with us. In their wake has been hundreds of thousands of deaths and trillions of dollars spent to accomplish absolutely nothing.As a result, Iraq is unstable and leans more heavily towards America’s adversary Iran than it does to Washington. The Iraqi Parliament has, in fact, asked U.S. forces to leave the country, a request that has been ignored both by Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Trump actually threatened to freeze Iraqi bank assets to pressure the Iraqis into accepting the continued U.S. occupation. At the same time, American troops illegally present in neighboring Syria, continue to occupy that country’s oil fields to deprive the government in Damascus of much needed resources. Neither Iraq nor Syria threatens the United States in any way.
 * Philip Giraldi in Whither Afghanistan? Getting Out Is Harder Than Getting In, Philip Giraldi, Strategic Culture, (July 22, 2021)

 * Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a "war on terrorism". You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?
 * Terry Jones The Observer, February 23, 2003.

 * You know, terror is an idea. You don’t fight an idea with a conventional Army. To win a war on terror you have to win the hearts and minds of people from whom, from where the terrorists are operating from. If you win their hearts and mind and get them on your side, you’ll win the war. If those people start regarding the terrorists as freedom fighters, history has told us that you can’t win the war.
 * Imran Khan interview with, Enough Rope, ABC Television, 13 October 2008

 * I’ll give you an example of (George Bush's) war on terror. He’s spent something like almost a trillion dollars. The estimates are that anything up to a million people have died and has he made the world a safer place? In my opinion he’s made the world a far more dangerous place. These are now nurseries for future terrorists.
 * Imran Khan interview with, Enough Rope, ABC Television, 13 October 2008

 * American military veterans of the “war on terror” are nearly 100 times more likely to develop some form of cancer than they are to be killed in action. Whereas the war on terror claimed over 7,000 lives of U.S. military personnel, more than 500,000 active-duty soldiers have been diagnosed with cancer over the past two decades. Due to exposure to toxic chemicals found in ordnance, burn pits, combat operations in countries and regions with lax environmental restrictions, or some combination of all three, cancer or chronic illness stemming from deployments is endemic to veterans returning home over the past two decades.
 * Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, “The War on Terror Created a Cancer Crisis. These Vets Are Trying to Fight Back.”, The New Republic, (March 21, 2023)

 * Motivated by the near-complete lack of information on post-9/11 veterans, HunterSeven set out to uncover and make known as much data as possible, hoping to draw links between service and illness. Almost immediately, the foundation was flooded by veterans reaching out with their own stories of illness and the walls they had to breach in an effort to find care. Comprised of a small group of volunteers, all of whom work in the medical field, HunterSeven has undertaken extensive clinical research, using data to continue to draw lines between post-9/11 deployments and incidences of cancer and other deadly illnesses, as those connections are essential to ensure the government provides post-service care. One of the organization’s biggest research discoveries has highlighted the discrepancies in cancer rates between branches. Air Force veterans who served on active duty are more likely to be diagnosed with cancer when compared not only to their age-adjusted civilian population but also to every other branch of service. Meanwhile, Marines, despite having the highest exposures to combat, had the lowest risk ratio for cancer diagnosis. Simoni said that as much as this data likely has something to do with exposure to work on flight lines, with jet fuels and the like, it is more likely a corollary to the average career span of an Air Force member being 12 to 16 years longer than that of a Marine. The more time in the service, the more years spent exposed to potentially toxic materials.
 * Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, “The War on Terror Created a Cancer Crisis. These Vets Are Trying to Fight Back.”, The New Republic, (March 21, 2023)

 * In addition to economic and military, wartime measures typically encourage a high degree of political, social and intellectual conformity. The general idea is that, in the face of an existential challenge from a vicious enemy, ought to cease. The media tends to become more patriotic, as do former . Such was the case in the United States during the early stages of its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, when most journalists and even Democratic politicians rallied around the Republican.
 * Pankaj Mishra, From Modi to Johnson, leaders are using the pandemic to suppress their critics (9 May, 2020),

 * Conflicts do not arise out of the blue. The occur as a result of causes and conditions, many of which are within the antagonists’ control. This is where leadership is important. Terrorism cannot be overcome by the use of force because it does not address the underlying problems. In fact the use of force may not only fail to solve the problems, it may exacerbate them, and frequently leaves destruction and suffering in its wake.
 * Dalai Lama in his “Commemoration of the First Anniversary of September 11, 2001

 * In 2002, as the United States moved towards war against Iraq, a final, huge war game tested American forces’ ability to defeat an unnamed Middle Eastern power. The American side had a clear advantage in advanced electronics, tanks, planes and warships. The general in command of the much weaker ‘enemy’ forces, however, rang rings around his opponents. He kept radio silence and used motorcycles to deliver messages and so made it difficult for his opponent’s electronic surveillance to follow his moves. He had fleets of suicide bombers in speedboats knock out, on paper, sixteen American warships. The Pentagon suspended the game part-way through and rewrote the rules. The warships were miraculously resurrected and the ‘enemy’ general was ordered to turn off his air defences and reveal the location of key units. He chose to quit in disgust. His demonstration of asymmetric war, where a weaker power can disrupt and challenge much stronger forces through unconventional means, was a warning of what was going to happen to coalition forces in both Afghanistan and Iraq, where they were battered by hit and run attacks by guerrillas who communicated through secure channels and who used cheap improvised explosive devices, often shells or other containers packed with explosives and pieces of metal such as ordinary nails which can be set off with cheap, readily available technology such as the remote controls for children’s toy cars or garage-door openers. Such devices have caused the majority of casualties for the occupying forces in both countries.
 * Margaret MacMillan, War: How Conflict Shaped Us (2020)

 * Moreover, the occupations lacked clear goals after the initial ones of toppling the Taliban or Saddam Hussein. The military found themselves taking on nation-building, something they were not trained for and for which they were not given clear directives. Before the invasion and occupation of Iraq in March 2003 there was only one meeting in Washington – that February, far too late to be helpful – when representatives from all the different departments involved, including State, Defense, Treasury and the CIA, came together to discuss the post-war situation. Although the State Department had spent a year preparing a massive study, the Defense Department and the White House made it clear that they had no interest in its findings and did not want leading US Iraq experts anywhere near the planning for what happened after victory. War, as the coalition was to discover in Iraq, takes on its own momentum and is often easier to start than to stop.
 * Margaret MacMillan, War: How Conflict Shaped Us (2020)

 * In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror"—exactly what, pray tell, is that?—to the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.
 * Bill Moyers, "The Meaning of Freedom", Sol Feinstone Lecture at the United States Military Academy, 15 November 2006, Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 78

 * As we do, we must also reaffirm that the United States is not—and never will be—at war with Islam. I've made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11, that our war is not against Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader; he was mass murderer of Muslims. Indeed, al-Qaeda has slaughtered scores of Muslims in many countries, including our own. So his demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity.
 * Barack Obama, Remarks of Barack Obama on the death of Osama bin Laden - Whitehouse transcript and video (1 May 2011)

 * We are bombarded with information about our alert status and we're told to report suspicious-looking characters. That primes people to be more paranoid.
 * David Penn, "Are they out to get you? Paranoia on the rise". NBC News. 2008-12-11.

 * During my conversations with American and European leaders, I always spoke of the need to fight terrorism together, as a challenge on a global scale. We cannot resign ourselves to and accept this threat, cannot cut it into separate pieces using double standards. Our partners expressed agreement, but a little time passed and we ended up back where we started. First there was the military operation in Iraq, then in Libya, which got pushed to the brink of falling apart. Why was Libya pushed into this situation? Today it is a country in danger of breaking apart and has become a training ground for terrorists. Only the current Egyptian leadership's determination and wisdom saved this key Arab country from chaos and having extremists run rampant. In Syria, as in the past, the United States and its allies started directly financing and arming rebels and allowing them to fill their ranks with mercenaries from various countries. Let me ask where do these rebels get their money, arms and military specialists? Where does all this come from? How did the notorious ISIL manage to become such a powerful group, essentially a real armed force?
 * Vladimir Putin, Remarks at the Final Plenary Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club's XI Session, delivered 24 October 2014, Sochi, The Russian Federation

 * The first blow was struck by the events of 9/11 and, more significantly, by the way the United States in particular responded to this. Long cherished civil liberties were struck down and multiculturalism began to fray. Public spaces were boarded up.  The backlash of the “war on terror” profoundly shaped developments in Europe, too, though some countries held out better than others.  Above all, these years began to pose the question of a failing international order, as it was conceived at the end of the Cold War.  Accustomed to projecting itself outward, the West was no subject to forces determined to break in.
 * Simon Reid-Henry, Empire of Democracy: The Remaking of the West Since the Cold War, 1971-2017 (2019), p. 7
 * We found that, contrary to what most Americans believe, the war on terror is not winding down—it has spread to more than 40 percent of the world’s countries. The war isn’t being waged by the military alone, which has spent $1.9 trillion fighting terrorism since 2001. The State Department has spent $127 billion in the last 17 years to train police, military and border patrol agents in many countries and to develop antiterrorism education programs, among other activities.
 * Stephanie Savell and 5W Infographics, "This Map Shows Where in the World the U.S. Military Is Combatting Terrorism", Smithsonian Magazine (January 2019).

 * Since the start of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), the suicide rate for military personnel who have seen combat has increased to that of the general population (Kang & Bullman, 2008), and perhaps beyond. This alarming increase suggests that exposure to combat may be an important factor that may cause or at least contribute to later death by suicide. At the same time, military service appears to have some qualities that lower suicide risk in times of peace, with deaths by suicide during basic training being as low as 5 deaths for every 100,000 military recruits (Scoville, Gardner, & Potter, 2004). Thus, the relationship between military service and suicidal behavior appears to be quite complex, serving as a risk factor for some and a protective factor for others. Unfortunately, research on the mechanisms through which military service influences suicide risk one way or the other is sparse. Employing new theoretical approaches to suicide may shed light on the recent alarming elevation in suicide rate, and aid military health professionals in providing efficient, economical, and effective assessments and treatment for suicidality.
 * Edward A. Selby, Michael D. Anestis, Theodore W. Bender, Jessica D. Ribeiro, Matthew K. Nock, M. David Rudd, Craig J. Bryan, Ingrid C. Lim, Monty T. Baker, Peter M. Gutierrez, and Thomas E. Joiner, Jr.; “Overcoming the Fear of Lethal Injury: Evaluating Suicidal Behavior in the Military through the Lens of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide”, Clin Psychol Rev, 2010 Apr; 30(3): 298–307.

 * President Bush has consistently argued that Iraq is the central front in the War on Terror. Al Qaeda leaders describe it the same way, which is why they are trying to use murder and mayhem to provoke sectarian violence, foment chaos, and create a safe haven for terror.  Defeating al Qaeda has been central to our new strategy in Iraq from day one and will continue to be.
 * Tony Snow,

 * All actions have consequences, and all nations, like individuals are ultimately held accountable for their actions. I felt that waging war in Iraq would have the consequence of harming America, not making it safer, both in the short and long term.
 * Ann Wright, Peace and Policy, vol. 9, Journal of Toda Institute, www.toda.org .

“Americans could owe $6.5 trillion for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — and that's just the interest” (August 18, 2021)
Rachel Layne, “Americans could owe $6.5 trillion for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — and that's just the interest”, CBS News, (August 18, 2021)
 * The ultimate cost of the nation's engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq, on top of the incalculable personal toll on combatants and civilians, reflects a shift in how war has typically been financed. From the American Civil War through the Korean War, the U.S. government has mostly paid for its conflicts through taxes and war bonds. But in the post-September 11 era, U.S. military spending has been financed almost entirely through debt.
 * Since the September 11 attacks, the U.S. government has spent $2.2 trillion to finance the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to figures from Brown University's Costs of War Project. Yet that sum — which amounts to roughly 10% of the the country's total gross domestic product — only reflects upfront costs. Including the cost of interest on those wars will add an additional $2.1 trillion by 2030. And through 2050, the interest alone is forecast to top $6.5 trillion — even if war spending had theoretically stopped in 2019, according to research published last year from Heidi Peltier, director of the "20 Years of War" Project at Boston University's Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Such borrowing leads to larger total costs because interest must be paid as long as the debt is owed. That pushes the "true cost of war out to future generations," Peltier told CBS MoneyWatch. "What that does is shield the American public from the costs currently," she said. "So, Americans don't realize that they're paying for the cost, because their taxes are not increased. And they're not buying more [war] bonds, they're not in any way feeling the [financial] effects currently."
 * Previous wars were largely paid for by taxes. For example, President Harry Truman temporarily raised the top tax rate on the richest Americans to 92% to help pay for the Korean War. And President Lyndon Johnson temporarily raised the top rate to 77% to fund the Vietnam War. At the outset of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq under President George W. Bush, however, Congress cut taxes by roughly 8% for the wealthiest Americans. Since then, war costs haven't been included in the regular defense budget, experts have noted. "In every previous major war, the war budget was integrated into the regular defense budget after the initial period. This meant that Congress and the Pentagon had to make trade-offs within the defense budget," Linda Bilmes, a lecturer in public policy and finance at Harvard's Kennedy School said told Congress in 2017. "By contrast, the post-9/11 wars have been funded mostly by supplemental appropriations."
 * Another hidden cost: military personnel. The U.S. has committed to pay the health care, disability, burial and other costs for about 4 million Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans, which are projected to amount to more than $2 trillion. Those costs will peak after 2048, according to the Associated Press.

In fiction

 * Star Trek: Enterprise was the first Trek series to appear after 9/11, and reflected these new realities. The prequel series crew stumbled as they confronted all manner of unfamiliar civilizations, and did not even get along with the Vulcans very well. Then, in season three a 9/11-style attack on Earth forced Starfleet to launch an expedition to go after the shadowy Xindi, who had launched the strike. Making the Xindi potentially scary was the consortium nature of their alliance, including humanoid, arboreal, insectoid and aquatic species. Just as al Qaeda was an international terrorist consortium, the Xindi was more dangerous together than separately — a fact the Enterprise crew use to pry away some of the species from the organization.
 * Joel R. Campbell, [HTTPS://THINK.IAFOR.ORG/STAR-TREK-BATTLESTAR-GALACTICA-UNDERSTANDING-POLITICS-AND-INTERNATIONAL-RELATIONS/ “Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica: Understanding Politics and International Relations"], (September 14, 2017).

 * Enterprise, fatally, was not a popular series, even though it lasted four seasons. Just as it was winding down came a much more robust SF response to the post-9/11 world in the form of the rebooted Battlestar Galactica. Shedding the disco era look of the original series, this was a much grittier, murky series. The Cylons were not relentless robots, but genetically engineered and emotional humanoids with their own religion (monotheists vs the terran polytheists). The series addressed myriad topics raised by the Global War on Terror and the Iraq War: torture of suspected terrorists, profiling of terrorist-prone groups, curbs on democratic freedoms, enhanced executive powers for national security imperatives, and discrimination based on security fears. The season arc containing the Cylon occupation of the terran New Caprica colony was a parable of the Iraq War, involving common elements of Bush’s conflict: insurgency, foreign occupation/suppression, collaboration with occupiers, and even suicide bombers.
 * Joel R. Campbell, [HTTPS://THINK.IAFOR.ORG/STAR-TREK-BATTLESTAR-GALACTICA-UNDERSTANDING-POLITICS-AND-INTERNATIONAL-RELATIONS/ “Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica: Understanding Politics and International Relations"], (September 14, 2017).

 * Huey squeals to the Feds’ terrorism hotline -
 * Huey: Why do you keep hanging up on me? I’m telling you the truth! The CIA trained Osama Bin Laden in using terrorism against the soviets during the Reagan-Bush administration they gave the Afghanistan rebels countless amounts of covert funding!
 * FBI: Don’t you have better things to be doing?
 * Huey: Better than fighting terrorism? Heck no! We’re at war!!
 * Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks, (10/5/2001)

 * Huey helps the FBI wage war on terrorism
 * Huey: Wait, before you hang up. I have one more important tip! G.W. Bush gave the Taliban government $4.3 million this May! This May!! How much of that money will be spent on weaponry that will be used against U.S. soldiers?
 * FBI: Wow – I didn’t know that …
 * Huey: He lives at 1600 Pennsylvania – hey, are you writing this down? And I suggest bringing really tight handcuffs.
 * Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks, (10/8/2001)

 * Editor’s Note Despite the tremendous reader response to “The Adventures of Flagee and Ribbon,” we have decided to bring back “The Boondocks” on a probationary basis. However, should material be deemed inappropriate, we are prepared to bring back “Flagee and Ribbon” at a moment’s notice. United We Stand.
 * Huey: Mr. Petto, how come nobody is talking about the ways that Bush’s big-oil compadres will benefit from this “war on terrorism”?
 * Ribbon: Hey, flagee, can we sing “the star-spangled banner” again?
 * Flagee: Of course, Ribbon. It’s our national anthem!
 * Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks, (12/22/2001)

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Family

In the context of human society, a  (from Latin: familia) is a group of people related either by (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship).

A

 * He made the people follow the proper path. [...] That fathers should be feared and mothers respected, that sons should pay heed to the words of their fathers, and that mercy, compassion and pity should be shown, that one should provide even one's paternal grandparents with food and drink -- all this he established in and.
 * About Ishme-Dagan, Anonymous, A praise poem of Ishme-Dagan,, at

B

 * Eine Familie, die keine schwarzen Schafe hat, ist keine charakteristische Familie.
 * A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.
 * Heinrich Böll, "Die schwarzen Schafe" (1951); cited from 1947 bis 1951 (Köln: F. Middelhauve, 1963) p. 478. Translation: "Black Sheep", in Leila Vennewitz (trans.) The Stories of Heinrich Böll (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1995) p. 408.

 * The Court must never forget, and will never forget, first of all, the rights of family life which are sacred.
 * Bowen, L.J., In re Agar-Ellis, Agar-Ellis v. Lascelles, (1883), id., L. R. 24 C. D. 337; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 188.

 * God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, To give sign we and they are his children, one family here.
 * Robert Browning, Saul, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845).

 * Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.
 * Gautama Buddha, Dhammapada, (verse 202), translator: Narada Maha Thera

C

 * The family is the original cell of social life. ...Authority, stability, and a life of relationships within the family constitute the foundations for freedom, security, and fraternity within society. The family is the community in which, from childhood, one can learn moral values, begin to honour God, and make good use of freedom. Family life is an initiation into life in society
 * Catechism of the Catholic Church §2207

 * Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.
 * Rose Cherin, as quoted in Family Therapies: A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal (2008) by Mark A. Yarhouse and James N. Sells, InterVarsity Press; and in A message from UTSA Vice President of Student Affairs- Dr. Gage E. Paine (November 2010), utsa.edu

 * If, for instance, a man had a godless father or son or brother, who became a hindrance to his faith and an obstacle to the life above, let him not live in fellowship or agreement with him, but let him dissolve the fleshly relationship on account of the spiritual antagonism.
 * Clement of Alexandria, The Rich Man's Salvation, Loeb Classical Library, Volume 92, p. 317

E

 * When success is essential to keeping a family together there is nothing a man won't do. Nothing.
 * Kerry Ehrin, Friday Night Lights, New York, New York Episode 3.07 (November 19, 2008).

 * Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
 * Exodus 20:12 NIV

F

 * Don Corleone: You spend time with your family? Johnny Fontane: Sure I do. Don Corleone: Good. 'Cause a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
 * Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo, The Godfather (1972).

G

 * Whereas once economic production concerned itself with food, shelter, and clothing, and a few limited tools of production, the modern technology of the ongoing industrial revolution introduced many new consumer products... and a vast new array of producers goods needed for the sophisticated techniques of production. ...[E]ven many of the old standbys that had usually been homemade—children's clothes, pies, and laundry soap—began to be commercially produced. Not only was the commercial production more efficient, the disintegrated industrial family was no longer the effective production unit of home commodities it had once been ...
 * Martin Gerhard Giesbrecht, The Evolution of Economic Society: An Introduction to Economics (1972) Ch. 7, The Arrival of Modern Economies and Economics, p. 194.

 * Parents face an uphill climb in understanding what their child is going through, more than ever with the internet consuming their child’s attention. Rather than assuming parents will harm their children, the state should recognize the inherent right of parents to make decisions for their own [children]. Practically, children need their parents to put boundaries around them, boundaries LGBT activists relentlessly work to remove. …Parents need to be ready to protect their [children], help them through severe emotional struggles, and keep them away from outside influences that want to isolate them.
 * Chad Felix Greene, "Yes, Parents Should Know If Their Child Is Gay", The Federalist (June 20, 2024)

H

 * Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the daily life of most humans ran its course within three ancient frames: the nuclear family, the extended family and the local intimate community. Most people worked in the family business – the family farm or the family workshop, for example – or they worked in their neighbours’ family businesses. The family was also the welfare system, the health system, the education system, the construction industry, the trade union, the pension fund, the insurance company, the radio, the television, the newspapers, the bank and even the police.
 * Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

 * I rejoice to think that since the days of Queen Elizabeth, our laws have been so far humanized that a bastard child is no longer a mere thing to be shunned by an overseer,—whose existence is unrecognised until it becomes a pauper, and whose only legitimate home is a workhouse, that it is no longer permissible to punish its unfortunate mother with hard labour for a year, nor its father with a whipping at the cart's tail; but that even an illegitimate child may find itself a member of some honest family, and that the sole obligation now cast upon its parents is that each may be compelled to bear his and her own fair share of the maintenance and education of the unfortunate offspring of their common failing.
 * Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton, Hardy v. Atherton (1881), L. R. 7 Q. B. 269; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 18.

J

 * The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my family…. public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one’s family and affairs.
 * Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Willis, Jr., April 18, 1790.—The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, vol. 16, p. 353 (1961).

K

 * The family consists of those who live under the same roof with the pater familias; those who form (if I may use the expression) his fire-side.
 * Lord Kenyon, C.J., R. v. Inhabitants of Darlington (1792), 4 T. R. 800; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 92.

L

 * My God! I have often regretted that I was born! I have often wished to fall back even into nothingness, rather than advance through so many falsehoods, so many sufferings, and so many successive losses, towards that loss of ourselves which we call death! Still, even in those moments of terrible faintheartedness, when despair overmasters reason, and when man forgets that life is a task imposed upon him to finish, I have always said to myself: "There are some things which I would regret not to have tasted — a mother's milk, a father's love, that relationship of heart and soul between brothers, household affections, joys, and even cares!" Our family is evidently our second self, more than self, existing before self, and surviving self with the better part of self. It is the image of the holy and loving unity of beings revealed by the small group of creatures who hold to one another, and made visible by feeling!
 * Alphonse de Lamartine, Les confidences (1849), trans. Eugène Plunkett, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1857, Book I, Note II, p. 19.

 * Much of American history has been the story of families moving westward ...
 * Louis L'Amour,

 * Your mother's dead, before long I'll be dead, and you and your brother and your sister and all of her children. All of us dead, all of us rotting in the ground. It's the family name that lives on. It's all that lives on. Not your honor, not your personal glory, family.
 * Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones, Season 1, Episode 7 "You Win Or You Die"

 * [T]here is grave disquiet when we break away from tested norms, and the tested norm is the family unit. It is the building brick of society. Governments will come, governments will go, but this endures.
 * Lee Kuan Yew, as quoted in A talk with the man who made Singapore by, 12 April 1994,

M

 * Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.
 * Mark 3:35 ISV

 * I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors I would rather start a family than finish one blood will tell but often it tells too much
 * Don Marquis, "A Roach of the Taverns", Archy and Mehitabel, pp. 156–57 (1927).

 * A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.
 * André Maurois, The Art of Family Life, Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939).

 * When harmony, mutual consideration and trust pass out of the home, hell enters in.
 * David O. McKay, Pathways To Happiness, (1957), p. 296.

 * For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
 * Micah 7:6

 * If I knew something useful to me and harmful to my family, I should put it out of my mind. If I knew something useful to my family and not to my country, I should try to forget it. If I knew something useful to my country and harmful to Europe, or useful to Europe and harmful to the human race, I should consider it a crime.
 * Charles de Montesquieu, as quoted by Robert John Loy, Montesquieu, chapter 3, p. 122 (1968).

P

 * The family is, so to speak, the domestic church. In it parents should, by their word and example, be the first preachers of the faith to their children.
 * Pope Paul VI, Lumen gentium (1964), § 11

S

 * The king ... like the vulgar, thinks, feels, acts, and lives Just as his father did; the unconquered powers Of precedent and custom interpose Between a king and virtue.
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Fairy in Queen Mab (1813), Canto III, lines 97-100

 * The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.
 * Martin Short, Parade Magazine (January 23rd, 2000).

 * The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.
 * Stein, Gertrude. Paris France. New York: Liveright, 1970. (p. 107).

 * A loving heart maintains a family; a hateful heart destroys a family.
 * Šuruppak, Instructions of Shuruppak (3rd millennium BCE).

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 * All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
 * Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part I, Chap. i. (1875–1877).
 * Also known as Anna Karenina principle

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 * Our government should not be run like a business; it should be run like a family. A business might rightfully put its short-term profits first, but a functional family puts the well-being of its children first. That's not a relative truth; it's a moral absolute... Our system was designed before women had a voice in the public realm, and raising children was deemed to just be "women's work." But we certainly have a voice now, and we need to raise it on behalf of every mother's child....  In any advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs.  Ours are threatened now, and we need to get fierce.
 * Marianne Williamson, If We Want a Prosperous America Tomorrow, Take Care of Our Children Today, Newsweek (23 July 2020)

 * The family is no artificial creation, arbitrarily called into being and always wearing the same forms. It has assumed different forms in different times and places, and also its present form will not remain the same; they will continue to evolve and adopt new forms, keeping pace with economic and social changes and with the ethical and intellectual needs of the people. To this day, it has been the most significant and influential institution for the individual lives of human beings, and it will undoubtedly remain for a long time. It is probably within the circle of the family, especially in youth, that people receive the deepest impressions, impressions that very often give their later lives a decisive direction. It should therefore be done everything possible to give this narrow circle a character that is as pleasant as possible and mentally appealing, especially one in which the child can experience well-being.
 * Milly Witkop, What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want?. “Was will der syndikalistische Frauenbund.” Berlin: Verl. Der Syndikalist, Fritz Kater, 1922. Translated by Jesse Cohn.

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 * The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
 * Article 16(3) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

 * (Reading a letter on T.V.) Dear Mrs. Doubtfire; Two months ago, my mom and dad decided to separate. Now they live in different houses. My brother Andrew says that we aren't a real family any more. Is this true? Did I lose my family? Is there anything I could do to get my parents back together? Sincerely, Katie McCormick." Oh, my dear Katie. You know, some parents get along much better when they don't live together. They don't fight all the time and they can become better people. Much better mommies and daddies for you. And sometimes they get back together. And sometimes they don't, dear. And if they don't... don't blame yourself. Just because they don't love each other doesn't mean that they don't love you. There are all sorts of different families, Katie. Some families have one mommy, some families have one daddy, or two families. Some children live with their uncle or aunt. Some live with their grandparents, and some children live with foster parents. Some live in separate homes and neighborhoods, in different areas of the country. They may not see each other for days, weeks, months or even years at a time. But if there's love, dear, those are the ties that bind. And you'll have a family in your heart forever. All my love to you, poppet. You're going to be all right. Bye-bye.
 * Mrs. Doubtfire, played by Robin Williams, screenplay by Randi Mayem Singer and Leslie Dixon

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 * Marriage and giving birth originated from God’s creation and preordination, It’s God who created man and woman and caused them to be fruitful and multiply. It’s an undisputed fact. Marriage and giving birth is from God, so it is a positive thing, which is undeniable.
 * Zhao Weishan, the main administrative leader of The Church of Almighty God
 * Retrieved from "Fake News that “The Church of Almighty God Is Anti-Family” Debunked by Italian Courts" by Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter (October 11, 2018)

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States of America. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. As permitted by the U.S. Constitution, the District is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and is therefore not a part of any U.S. state. The U.S. states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the preexisting settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria. Named in honor of George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia and created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District in 1871.

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 * Immediately seek shelter in the closest office. Remain quiet and await further directions.
 * Announcement over a loudspeaker across the Capitol during the 2021 storming, according to Live Blog / Live updates: 1 dead after pro-Trump mob breaches Capitol, National Guard called in Updated Jan. 6, 2021, 3:41 PM PST

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 * There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.
 * Marion Barry, explaining why he was upset at being robbed at gunpoint, as quoted in the Washington Express (4 January 2006), p. 11

 * Washington is the most intensely parochial city in the world.
 * Claire Berlinski, Twitter post (6 November 2018)
 * Before me stands monuments of the greatest and the goodness of our nation— monuments of light and liberty. There is a towering memorial to George Washington. The general who led our revolution, the president who set our nation on its course. There’s a memorial to Thomas Jefferson, whose words about liberty and equality literally changed the world. And across the tidal basin from the Jefferson memorial, there stands Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., his arms crossed, his eyes fixed ahead toward the promised land where equality is not only an aspiration but a reality. They help define who we are. Guide what we do. Remind us of the work that history has given us in our own time.
 * Joe Biden, "Declaring Our Independence from a Deadly Virus" 2021. Vital Speeches of the Day 87 (9): 213–14.

 * WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.
 * Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

 * The global role of the United States is perhaps the ultimate chapter in that long period of European expansion which had begun in western Europe, and especially on the Atlantic seaboard, during the 15th century. Europe slowly had outgrown its homeland. Its cultural empire eventually formed a long band traversing most of the Northern Hemisphere and dipping far into the Southern. The modern hub of the peoples and ideas of European origin is now New York as much as Paris, or Los Angeles as much as London. In the history of the European peoples the city of Washington is perhaps what Constantinople - the infant city of Emperor Constantine - was to the last phase of the Roman Empire; for it is unlikely that Europeans, a century hence, will continue to stamp the world so decisively with their ideas and inventions.
 * Geoffrey Blainey, A Short History of the World (2000)

 * The center of American ideas is Washington, D.C.
 * Arthur Brooks, interview with Bill Kristol (2015), transcript

 * Too small to be a state but too large to be an asylum for the mentally deranged.
 * Anne Gorsuch Burford, characterizing the District of Columbia, remarks to a Colorado state convention of wool growers, Vail, Colorado, July 27, 1984, as reported by The Washington Post, July 29, 1984, p. 1. Burford was a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Her remark is reminiscent of one reportedly made by James L. Petigru during Christmas week, 1860, in Charleston, South Carolina, when he was asked by Robert Barnwell Rhett, a leader of the secessionists, if he were with them: "South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum".—Earl Schenck Miers, The Great Rebellion, p. 50 (1958).

 * I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
 * George W. Bush, interview with the Associated Press (18 January 2001)

 * [T]here is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town.
 * George W. Bush, as quoted in "W.’s Greatest Hits: The top 25 Bushisms of all time" (12 January 2009), by Jacob Weisberg, Slate

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 * Washington isn’t like everywhere else. The city’s economy is tied directly to the size of the federal budget, which has grown virtually without pause since the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The District of Columbia and its surrounding suburbs are now the wealthiest metro region in the country. Washington’s job market is effectively bulletproof. Political figures cycle in and out of government, from lobbying to finance to contracting and back, growing richer at every turn. In Washington, prosperity is all but guaranteed. To the rest of the country, this looks like corruption, because, essentially, it is. But if you live there, it’s all upside. The most interesting effect of uninterrupted economic growth is that the culture of the city remains unusually stable. Even as Washington’s population has grown exponentially over the years, many things about the city haven’t changed at all. Most of the affluent neighborhoods look the same demographically as they did in 1960. Mothers don’t work. Divorce is unusual. Housing prices almost never fall. It’s a cultural time capsule. By voter registration, D.C. is the most Democratic city in America. Yet the instincts of the people who live there are deeply conservative. Washingtonians hate change. More than anything, they hate to be told they’re wrong, or their ideas are stupid, especially when they are.
 * Tucker Carlson, Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution (2018)
 * We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
 * Rufus Choate, "The Importance of Illustrating New-England History by a Series of Romances like the Waverley Novels", a lecture delivered at Salem, Massachusetts (1833).

 * If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed.
 * Irwin S. Cobb. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).

 * We need to make D.C. listen.
 * Ted Cruz, transcript of ObamaCare filibuster, TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ted Cruz’s marathon speech against Obamacare on Sept. 24, Washington Post (September 24, 2013)

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 * Abigail Adams: Half-fed slaves building our nation's capital. What possible good can come from such a place?
 * Abigail Adams as interpreted by Laura Linney in John Adams, written by Kirk Ellis, "Part VI: Unnecessary War", (March 16 – April 27, 2008); based on the book by David McCullough

 * After much menutial search for an elligible situation, prompted I may say from a fear of being prejudiced in favour of a first opinion I could discover no one so advantageously to greet the congressional building as is that on the west end of Jenkins heights which stand as a pedestal waiting for a monument, and I am confident, were all the wood cleared from the ground no situation could stand in competition with this. some might perhaps require less labour to be rendered agreeable but after all assistance of arts none ever would be made so grand and all other would appear but of secondary nature.
 * Pierre L'Enfant, letter to George Washington (June 22, 1791); Records of the Columbia Historical Society (1899), vol. 2, p. 35. This letter contained a description of Capitol Hill, then called Jenkins Hill.

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 * Just applied to an apartment in DC where I told the guy that my credit was really bad. He said I’d be fine. Got denied, lost the apartment, and the application fee. This ain’t meant for people who don’t already have money
 * Maxwell Frost First Gen Z congressman-elect says he was denied DC apartment over bad credit (By Sonnet Swire, CNN Published 7:24 PM EST, Fri December 9, 2022)

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 * An incumbent in Washington knows he is in trouble on the day that cartoonists begin to represent him as a king.
 * Christopher Hitchens, The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish (1990), Random House.

 * Washington is a city where dwell many of the first men of the land, and the women they married when they were young.
 * Fanny Dixwell Holmes, remark to President Theodore Roosevelt at the reception preceding a dinner at the White House in honor of her husband, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, January 8, 1903. Reported in Catherine Drinker Bowen, Yankee from Olympus, p. 362 (1944). Originally cited in Francis Biddle, "Mr. Justice Holmes", p. 195 (1942).

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 * Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.
 * John F. Kennedy, remarks to the trustees and advisory committee of the national cultural center, November 14, 1961. The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961, p. 719.

 * Back in about 1753 it took a letter three days to go from New York City to Washington, and today you can go from here to China in less time than that... Man's scientific genius has been amazing.
 * Martin Luther King, Jr., ""Rediscovering Lost Values", sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church (28 February 1954).

 * A gaffe in Washington is when a politician inadvertently reveals the truth, especially about himself.
 * Charles Krauthammer, "Donald Trump and the fitness threshold", at The Washington Post (4 August 2016)

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 * But it is dreaded that the freed people will swarm forth and cover the whole land. Are they not already in the land? Will liberation make them any more numerous? Equally distributed among the whites of the whole country, and there would be but one colored to seven whites. Could the one in any way greatly disturb the seven? There are many communities now having more than one free colored person to seven whites and this without any apparent consciousness of evil from it. The District of Columbia and the States of Maryland and Delaware are all in this condition. The District has more than one free colored to six whites, and yet in its frequent petitions to Congress I believe it has never presented the presence of free colored persons as one of its grievances. But why should emancipation South send the free people North? People of any color seldom run unless there be something to run from. Hertofore colored people to some extent have fled North from bondage, and now, perhaps, from both bondage and destitution.
 * Abraham Lincoln, Second State of the Union Address (1 December 1862).

 * If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on.
 * Abraham Lincoln, remark to John Eaton of Toledo, Ohio (1863), reported in Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln (1939), vol. 2, p. 535 (1939). Sandburg notes that Eaton had spoken to Lincoln of "hoisting the statue of Liberty over the Capitol dome, new marble pillars to be installed on the Senate wing, a massive and richly embellished bronze door being made for the main central portal. People were saying it was an extravagance during wartime".

 * So I came to Washington, where I knew I would be farther away from America than I could be on some foreign shore; not that I do not respect this as a good part of America but in its general routine the heart of America is felt less here than at any place I have ever been.
 * Huey Long, remarks in the Senate, May 17, 1932, Congressional Record, vol. 75, p. 10393.

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 * During the hours of the curfew, no person, other than persons designated by the Mayor, shall walk, bike, run, loiter, stand, or motor by car or other mode of transport upon any street, alley, park, or other public place within the District
 * Muriel Bowser D.C. Mayor Issues 6 P.M. Curfew As Trump Supporters Breach Capitol posted January 6, 20213:17 PM ET

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 * ask yourself why *any* US citizen is denied the right to vote bc of where they live. Even US citizens living ABROAD have the right to vote but US citizens in Puerto Rico cannot. It’s colonialism. And in the case of DC, racism.
 * Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 4/21/2022 on Twitter

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 * We can't even straighten up our capital in terms of crime.
 * Rick Rescorla, interview in New York (28 July 1998)

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 * This is truly the capital... And the capital of the most important nation in the world—so there is more protocol here... If you want to know who next U.S. president will be, you cannot stay within the beltway... I always tell my staff that this is a big country with a history.
 * Henne Schuwer, interview with Safa Shahwan (May 2016)

 * In Washington, the clearer a statement is, the more certain it is to be followed by a "clarification" when people realize what was said.
 * Thomas Sowell, "Out of Context", Jewish World Review (2 June 2009).

 * If there is one thing that is bipartisan in Washington, it is brazen hypocrisy.
 * Thomas Sowell, "Supreme Hypocrisy", 29 March 2016

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 * [George] Washington intended this to be a Federal city, and it is a Federal city, and it tingles down to the feet of every man, whether he comes from Washington State, or Los Angeles, or Texas, when he comes and walks these city streets and begins to feel that this is my city; I own a part of this Capital, and I envy for the time being those who are able to spend their time here. I quite admit that there are defects in the system of government by which Congress is bound to look after the government of the District of Columbia. It could not be otherwise under such a system, but I submit to the judgment of history that the result vindicates the foresight of the fathers.
 * William Howard Taft, address at a banquet given in his honor by the Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce of Washington, D.C. (May 8, 1909); Presidential Addresses and State Papers of William Howard Taft (1910), vol. 1, chapter 7, p. 82-83.

 * Now, I am opposed to the franchise in the District [of Columbia]; I am opposed, and not because I yield to any one in my support and belief in the principles of self-government; but principles are applicable generally, and then, unless you make exceptions to the application of these principles, you will find that they will carry you to very illogical and absurd results. This was taken out of the application of the principle of self-government in the very Constitution that was intended to put that in force in every other part of the country, and it was done because it was intended to have the representatives of all the people in the country control this one city, and to prevent its being controlled by the parochial spirit that would necessarily govern men who did not look beyond the city to the grandeur of the nation, and this as the representative of that nation.
 * William Howard Taft, address at a banquet given in his honor by the Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce of Washington, D.C. (May 8, 1909); Presidential Addresses and State Papers of William Howard Taft (1910), vol. 1, chapter 7, p. 83.

 * D.C. you could be the end of me.
 * Train, "Idaho", Train (1996), California: Wolfgang Records

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 * To my eye, there is more American greatness in a New England town hall than in all of Washington, and more American greatness in an Oregon apple orchard or a Rotary meeting than there is in all the tanks and rockets that ever have been.
 * Kevin D. Williamson, "The Nationalism Show" (March 2019), National Review

 * We start from scratch, every generation. History does not bend inevitably toward justice, or freedom, or decency, or even stability. History doesn’t do that in Hong Kong, or in Moscow, or in Washington or New York City or Los Angeles. History goes where we push it. And if we don’t push, someone else will.
 * Kevin D. Williamson, "The End of (Whig) History" (1 July 2020), National Review

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 * During the Civil War, one of the nation's leading abolitionists was Republican Senator Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, who would later serve as vice president during President Grant's second term. In December 1861, Mr. Wilson introduced a bill to abolish slavery in the District. The measure met with parliamentary obstacles from the adamantly pro-slavery Democratic Party, whom Republicans in those days referred to as the 'Slave-ocrats'. Most Democrats in Congress having resigned in order to join the Confederate rebellion, Wilson's measure sailed through the Senate. The abolitionist senator responsible for outmaneuvering Democrat opposition was Ben Wade, the Ohio Republican who six years later would have assumed the presidency had the bitterly racist Democratic President, Andrew Johnson, been convicted during his impeachment trial. In the House of Representatives, Democrats delayed passage with a series of stalling tactics. Finally, the majority leader, Thaddeus Stevens, bulldozed over Democrat opposition by calling the House into a committee of the whole. He stopped all other business in the House until Democrats relented and allowed a vote on the bill. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, is best known for his 'forty acres and a mule' proposal. Overall, 99 percent of Republicans in Congress voted to free the slaves in the District of Columbia, and 83 percent of Democrats voted to keep them in chains.
 * Michael Zak, as quoted in "Who killed slavery?" (17 April 2006), by M. Zak, The Washington Times.

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