On defendants in the Moscow Trials and on innocents betrayed by Communist Party members, as recounted by philosopher Sidney Hook, as quoted in Intellectuals (1990) by Paul Johnson, p. 190; though this might easily be interpreted as implying that anyone who had failed to conspire against Stalin deserved to be shot, Hook implies that he meant that the betrayal of innocents was justified. Henry Pachter is also quoted in Intellectuals as saying that Brecht had made similar remarks in his presence, and had added "Fifty years hence the communists will have forgotten Stalin, but I want to be sure that they will still read Brecht. Therefore I cannot separate myself from the Party."
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
"Candidates' gun control positions may figure in Pa. vote" http://triblive.com//x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_560181.html#axzz3dMIj6b00 by Mike Wereschagin and David M. Brown, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (2 April 2008) <br class="br">2008
“There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.”
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
“A grouse deserves better than to be shot on the ground.”
George Bird Evans (1906–1998) American writer
An Affair with Grouse (1982)
“I will give them one more shot!”
Alonzo Cushing (1841–1863) Union Army soldier
Manley, B. (2015). Union Officer to Receive Medal of Honor for Heroics at Gettysburg. Military History, 31(5), 8.
Final words spoken before dying from a bullet wound to the head.
“Damnation on doubt. It kills more good sailors than round shot!”
Douglas Reeman (1924–2017) British author
A Tradition of Victory, Cap 15 "An Impudent Gesture"
“As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.”
Dave Barry (1947) American writer
Column, The Miami Herald, 21 January 1996
Columns and articles
“Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686), line 70.
Jair Bolsonaro (1955) Brazilian president elect
In an interview to Luciana Gimenez broadcasted on 7 May 2019. Racism 'rare' in Brazil, says far right Bolsonaro https://www.france24.com/en/20190508-racism-rare-brazil-says-far-right-bolsonaro. France 24 (8 May 2019).
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2002, State of the Union address (January 2002)
