
Source: Twitter post https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1078674237311860736 (28 December 2018)
Source: Twitter post https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1078674235495796736 (28 December 2018)
Source: Twitter post https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1078674237311860736 (28 December 2018)
2009, A World without Nuclear Weapons (April 2009)
Revolution by Reason, p. 31, quoted in Robert Skidelsky, Oswald Mosley (Papermacs, 1981), p. 145.
“We must demand the highest order of integrity and ability in our public men”
1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), The Strenuous Life
Context: Let us, as we value our own self-respect, face the responsibilities with proper seriousness, courage, and high resolve. We must demand the highest order of integrity and ability in our public men who are to grapple with these new problems. We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources. Of course we must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the causes of disaster.
Page 353
2000s, Promises to Keep (2008)
Twitter post https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1140904436094644224 (18 June 2019)
2019
“Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries — but it is a force stronger than crime.”
This I Believe (1952)
Context: Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries — but it is a force stronger than crime.
I believe in the patient gallantry of nurses... in the tedious sacrifices of teachers. I believe in the unseen and unending fight against desperate odds that goes on quietly in almost every home in the land.
“The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.”