“There is only one thing to do — take it to the country!”
On opposing the war in Vietnam, as quoted in The New York Times (11 December 2005) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/national/11mccarthy.html?ex=1291957200&en=700c431b1c41b6b2&ei=5090
Eugene Joseph McCarthy dit Gene McCarthy, né à Watkins le 29 mars 1916 et mort à Washington, D.C. le 10 décembre 2005, est un homme politique américain qui est resté longtemps membre du Congrès des États-Unis : il a siégé à la Chambre des représentants de 1949 à 1959 puis au Sénat de 1959 à 1971. Wikipedia
“There is only one thing to do — take it to the country!”
On opposing the war in Vietnam, as quoted in The New York Times (11 December 2005) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/national/11mccarthy.html?ex=1291957200&en=700c431b1c41b6b2&ei=5090
The New York Times (11 December 2005)
“It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.”
From “Ten Commandments for New Hill Members,” in The Washington Post (4 January 1981), as cited in The Official Rules https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0486482103: 5,427 Laws, Principles and Axioms to Help You Cope With Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape and Attacks by Inanimate Objects, Paul Dickson, Courier Corporation (2013), p. 223
Chicago Tribune (10 September 1978)
“Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.”
From “Ten Commandments for New Hill Members,” in The Washington Post (4 January 1981), as cited in The Official Rules https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0486482103: 5,427 Laws, Principles and Axioms to Help You Cope With Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape and Attacks by Inanimate Objects, Paul Dickson, Courier Corporation (2013), p. 223
“Have you ever tried to split sawdust?”
Response to accusations that he had split the US Democratic Party by campaigning for president. NBC TV (23 October 1969)
Things about to break are stronger still.
The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.
"Courage After Sixty"
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