“Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994) public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy
Inscription for cards at her husband’s funeral (25 November 1963)
The Land o’ the Leal.
“Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994) public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy
Inscription for cards at her husband’s funeral (25 November 1963)
John Dowland (1563–1626) English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer
Robert Graves, letter to Idries Shah, September 6, 1968; published in Between Moon and Moon: Selected Letters of Robert Graves 1946-1972, (1984), p. 272.
Criticism
Thomas Campion (1567–1620) English composer, poet and physician
The Man of Life Upright
Merrick Garland (1952) American judge
[Merrick Garland, Confirmation hearing on nomination of Merrick Garland to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, United States Senate, December 1, 1995]; quote excerpted in:
[March 18, 2016, http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/03/16/judge-merrick-garland-in-his-own-words/, Judge Merrick Garland, In His Own Words, Joe Palazzolo, March 16, 2016, The Wall Street Journal]
Confirmation hearing on nomination to United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1995)
“America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.”
Walter Cronkite (1916–2009) American broadcast journalist
Source: Free the Airwaves! (2002)
“King Richard: From this day forward, all toilets in this kingdom shall be known as…'Johns!”
Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
“The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.”
Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Chapter X, Part I http://books.google.com/books?id=QItKAAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+world+neither+ever+saw+nor+ever+will+see+a+perfectly+fair+lottery%22&pg=PA76#v=onepage. <br class="br">(1776), Book I
Anatole France book Penguin Island
Book I : The Beginnings, Ch. VI : An Assembly In Paradise
Penguin Island (1908)
Context: When the baptism of the penguins was known in Paradise, it caused neither joy nor sorrow, but an extreme surprise. The Lord himself was embarrassed. He gathered an assembly of clerics and doctors, and asked them whether they regarded the baptism as valid.