“He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.”
Henry David Thoreau book A Plea for Captain John Brown
A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)
As quoted in The Tribune (India) (29 May 2006) http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060529/world.htm <br class="br">Context: On my expedition there was no way that you would have left a man under a rock to die. It simply would not have happened. It would have been a disaster from our point of view. There have been a number of occasions when people have been neglected and left to die and I don’t regard this as a correct philosophy. I am absolutely certain that if any member of our expedition all those years ago had been in that situation we would have made every effort.
“He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.”
Henry David Thoreau book A Plea for Captain John Brown
A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)
Oswald Pohl (1892–1951) Head of the SS Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt
Therefore, I did my best to keep out of the whole final solution of the Jewish problem.
"The Nuremberg Interviews"
Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier
"Main Street"
Main Street and Other Poems (1917)
Context: God be thanked for the Milky Way that runs across the sky,
That's the path that my feet would tread whenever I have to die.
Some folks call it a Silver Sword, and some a Pearly Crown,
But the only thing I think it is, is Main Street, Heaventown.
“If I am to die, I would rather die fighting on the left.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Remark to Herbert Samuel, explaining his opposition to Liberal politicians joining the National Government (5 October 1931), quoted in John Campbell, Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922–1931 (1977), p. 301
Leader of the Independent Liberals
Otto Ohlendorf (1907–1951) German general
At the Nuremberg Trials. Quoted in "Valhalla's Warriors: A History of the Waffen SS on the Eastern Front" - Page 186 - by Terry Goldsworthy - History - 2007.
“If we didn't have quotas there would be overfishing and we would have no fish left.”
Liz Truss (1975) British Conservative Party politician
EU referendum: Leavers 'want to have cake and eat it', Elizabeth Truss claims https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36512743 BBC News (12 June 2016) <br class="br">2016
“When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?"”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
there is no answer to be made.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 43.