“A tendancy to melancholy… let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Edward G. Abington, a former State Department official who is now a Washington consultant to the Palestinian Authority regarding the future of the Palestinian Authority http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17536-2004Feb29.html (2004-02-29) --> <br class="br">2000s
“A tendancy to melancholy… let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) Japanese martial artist, writer, artist
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Fire Book
Mohammad Emami-Kashani (1937) Iranian politician
Friday Sermon at Tehran University: America Will Collapse http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/186.htm July 2004. <br class="br">America to collapse
Tom DeLay (1947) American Republican politician
Appearing on Hannity and Colmes http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002129.php (12 December, 2006̠) <br class="br">2000s
“Let a defect, which is possibly but small, appear undisguised.
A fault concealed is presumed to be great.”
Simpliciter pateat vitium fortasse pusillum:
Quod tegitur, magnum creditur esse malum
Martial book Epigrammata
Variant translation: Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
III, 42.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
Jeane Kirkpatrick (1926–2006) American diplomat and Presidential advisor
Dictatorship and Double Standards, Commentary (New York, Nov. 1979), quoted in The Economist , 23 December 2006:131
Eric Foner (1943) American historian
"Not All Freedom Is Made in America" http://ericfoner.com/articles/041303nytimes.html (13 April 2003), The New York Times <br class="br">2000s
Ilana Mercer South African writer
"The Ridiculous Racial Merry-go-round," http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/05/the-ridiculous-racial-merry-go-round.html Economic Policy Journal, May 2, 2014. <br class="br">2010s, 2014
Geert Wilders (1963) Dutch politician
2000s, Speech at the Four Seasons, New York (25 September 2008)