Joyce Johnson (1935) American novelist, short story writer, memoirist
Source: Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
From a Texas concert in 1973, recorded in Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQdhKUNkdUg&feature=player_embedded#at=235.
Joyce Johnson (1935) American novelist, short story writer, memoirist
Source: Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
“I would ask you all to be on your guard against the enemy within.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
There are those who would stop at nothing to injure our economy and our defence. The price of liberty is still eternal vigilance. I know what a fine part the trade unionists of this country have played in our recovery effort. When they are asked to take unofficial action, which may hurt this country, let them just consider carefully whether the motives of those who ask them to strike are really concerned with the interests of the workers.
Broadcast (30 July 1950), quoted in The Times (31 July 1950), p. 4
Prime Minister
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Gifts
Hugo Black (1886–1971) U.S. Supreme Court justice
Concurring in New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971).
Context: The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security ….
“we only asked for leopards to guard
our thinning dreams.”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Charles Sumner (1811–1874) American abolitionist and politician
The Crime Against Kansas speech (May 19-20, 1856)
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
The Guardian [UK] (23 May 1992)
Context: We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.