James Jeffrey Roche (1847–1908) American journalist
Sir Hugo's Choice, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The things are mighty few on earth
That wishes can attain.
Whate'er we want of any worth
We've got to work to gain.”
Results and Roses, stanza 2, p. 57.
A Heap o' Livin' (1916)
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That wishes can attain.
Whate'er we want of any worth
We've got to work to gain." by Edgar Guest?
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Billie Letts book Where the Heart Is
Variant: ... tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.
Source: Where the Heart Is
“And I just want to tell you this — we're in favor of a lot of things and we're against mighty few.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
Campaign statement (1964), as quoted in The Making of the President, 1964 (1966) by T. H. White, p. 413.
1960s
Leighton W. Smith, Jr. (1939) United States Navy admiral
Why Peacekeeping is So Difficult http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/LWSmith/lwsmith-con07.html <br class="br">Interview at USC Berkeley (1997) <br class="br">Context: When we went to Bosnia the people in Bosnia welcomed us with open arms, and I would go down the street and people would come up and say, "Admiral, thank you for bringing peace to Bosnia." And my standard answer was this, "I cannot bring peace to this country. Only you can bring peace to this country. I can bring the conditions in which peace can be established, but I cannot bring peace to this country." So the mistake we have made in our country, if we have made a mistake, is that we believe that we can influence or that we can enforce a peace, and we cannot. You can stop the fighting, and we did. And you can put money into a country and you can try to build it up so that the momentum you get from a visible economic engine creates a condition where peace will take hold. But that requires a political will that is not today evident in Bosnia. It was certainly not evident when I was there.<br>I think we are doing the right thing to put our military into these kinds of operations. No one is better able to do it. Peacekeeping is not a soldier function, but only soldiers can do it, because we've got the organization. We can make things happen in a hurry.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Rediscovering Lost Values (1954)
David Cay Johnston (1948) Investigative journalist and author
David Cay Johnston, "It's Even Worse Than You Think" (Jan 27, 2018)
Ernest Bevin (1881–1951) British labour leader, politician, and statesman
Peter Hennessy, "Cabinets and the Bomb", Oxford University Press 2007, p. 48.
Remarks at Cabinet Committee GEN75, 25 October 1946, about the development of the British atomic bomb.
