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Our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination...rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

William J. Brennan, Jr

Frontiero v. Richardson

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Brennan, William J., Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Frontiero v. Richardson. United States Reports, vol. 411, 14 May 1973, pp. 677-692. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/411/677/.

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We are all of us, men and women both, the creatures of culture: We do and feel what our societies want us to do and feel, and the demands that they put upon us are not always either very consistent or very precisely correlated with biology.

Diana Trilling

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Trilling, Diana. "Female Biology in a Male Culture." The Saturday Review, 10 Oct. 1970.

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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.

J. William Fulbright

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Fulbright, James William. "Sayings of the Year." Observer, 21 Dec. 1958.

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A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

Norman Mailer

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Mailer, Norman. The Presidential Papers. Bantam Books, 1964, preface.

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We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Gould, Stephen Jay. Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin. Harmony Books, 1996, pt. 4, ch. 14.

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We all make mistakes. We know we make mistakes. I don't know any military commander, who is honest, who would say he has not made a mistake. There's a wonderful phrase: "the fog of war." What "the fog of war" means is: war is so complex it's beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend all the variables. Our judgment, our understanding, are not adequate. And we kill people unnecessarily.

Robert McNamara

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The Fog of War. Directed by Errol Morris, RadicalMedia/SenArt Films, 2003.

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The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Henry Beston

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Beston, Henry. The Outermost House. Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928, ch. 3.

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Beston, Henry. The Outermost House. Holt Paperbacks, 2003, ch. 3.

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Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

George C. Marshall

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Marshall, George Catlett. Address announcing the Marshall Plan. 5 June 1947, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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There is only one success, he said to himself-to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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Morley, Christopher. Where the Blue Begins. William Heinemann/Doubleday, 1922, ch. 8.

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The first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated.

Robert H. Jackson

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Jackson, Robert H. "Opening Statement before the International Military Tribunal." 21 Nov. 1945, International Military Tribunal, Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, Germany.

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Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of the events, and in the total of all these acts will be written the history of this generation.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Kennedy, Robert F. "Day of Affirmation." National Union of South African Students meeting. 6 June 1966, Jameson Hall, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa.

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To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch their renewal of life-this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Charles Dudley Warner

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Warner, Charles Dudley. "Preliminary." My Summer in a Garden. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1870.

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On this February day, as this nation stands at the brink of battle, every American on some level must be contemplating the horrors of war. Yet this chamber is, for the most part, silent-ominously, dreadfully silent. There is no debate, no discussion, no attempt to lay out for the nation the pros and cons of this particular war. There is nothing. We stand passively mute in the United States Senate, paralyzed by our own uncertainty, seemingly stunned by the sheer turmoil of events.

Robert Byrd

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Byrd, Robert C. Speech on the impending invasion of Iraq. 12 Feb. 2003, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Greed is all right... Greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

Ivan F. Boesky

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Boesky, Ivan. Commencement speech. 18 May 1986, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

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Mencken, HL. "Women as Outlaws." A Mencken Chrestomathy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1949, ch. 3. Originally published In Defense of Women. Philip Goodman, 1918, ch. 2, sec. 13.

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The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not "taking" and the woman is not "giving." No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn.

Erica Jong

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Jong, Erica. Fear of Flying. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, ch. 1.

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We Americans are great on fillers, as if what we have, what we are, is not enough... We have only to look at the houses we build to see how we build against space, the way we drink against pain and loneliness. We fill up space as if it were a pie shell, with things whose opacity further obstructs our ability to see what is already there.

Gretel Ehrlich

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Ehrlich, Gretel. The Solace of Open Spaces. Viking Press, 1985.

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The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.

Learned Hand

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Hand, Learned. Speech to the Yale Law graduates. Graduation cermony. 17 June 1931, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, USA.

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The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success. That-with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success-is our national disease.

William James

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James, William. Letter to H. G. Wells. 11 Sept. 1906.

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We of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who participated in the decisions on Vietnam acted according to what we thought were the priniples and traditions of this nation. We made our decisions in the light of those values. Yet we were wrong, terribbly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why.

Robert McNamara

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McNamara, Robert. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. Random House, 1995, preface.

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