Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)
“The Court today finds that the Powers That Be, up in Albany, have conspired to effect an establishment of the Satmar Hasidim. I do not know who would be more surprised at this discovery: the Founders of our Nation or Grand Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, founder of the Satmar. The Grand Rebbe would be astounded to learn that after escaping brutal persecution and coming to America with the modest hope of religious toleration for their ascetic form of Judaism, the Satmar had become so powerful, so closely allied with Mammon, as to have become an establishment of the Empire State. And the Founding Fathers would be astonished to find that the Establishment Clause — which they designed to insure that no one powerful sect or combination of sects could use political or governmental power to punish dissenters — has been employed to prohibit characteristically and admirably American accommodation of the religious practices (or more precisely, cultural peculiarities) of a tiny minority sect. I, however, am not surprised. Once this Court has abandoned text and history as guides, nothing prevents it from calling religious toleration the establishment of religion.”
Board of Ed. of Kiryas Joel v. Grumet (1994) (dissenting) (citations and some internal quotation marks omitted).
1990s
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From the preface to the 2002 Knopf Edition
The End of the American Era (2002)
Context: As a matter of urgency, America needs to begin to prepare itself and the rest of the world for this uncertain future. To wait until American dominance is already gone would be to squander the enormous opportunity that comes with primacy. America must devise a grand strategy for the transition to a world of multiple power centers now, while it still has the luxury of doing so. This is the central challenge of The End of the American Era.
His response to the comment that he was after power.
The Lonely Punter: V.P.Singh
“Power as the pursuit of more power inevitably founders in the void that lies beyond itself.”
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958), Chapter Eight, Nietzsche, p. 181
On Jawaharlal Nehru, as quoted in "Commanding Heights: Manmohan Singh" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/int_manmohansingh.html, PBS (6 February 2001)
2001-2005
Column published in Guns and Ammo (1 September 1975)
1970s
Andy Roddick, to the press, on what he made of press' criticism for Federer's dip in form in 2008 that saw him slip to No. 2 in the world; US Open 2008- Day 7 quotes http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/7591100.stm
“Who would not rather founder in the fight
Than not have known the glory of the fray?”
"Two and Fate", p. 29.
Along the Trail (1898)
From King's Foreword in Battle Stations! Your Navy In Action (1946) by Admirals of the U.S. Navy, p. 9