Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America
1970s, They're Born That Way (1971)
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French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769–1821Related quotes
“Inter faeces et urinam nascimur.”
Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher
We are born between feces and urine.
Attributed to a church father in Freud's Dora; Freud seems to have found it in an anatomy textbook by Josef Hyrtl (1867), where it was attributed to a church father; it may have been invented by Hyrtl. http://books.google.com/books?id=yw3tglAWxNAC&pg=RA1-PR72&lpg=RA1-PR72&dq=%22inter+urinas+et+faeces+nascimur%22+hyrtl&source=bl&ots=2sjrc-dGEs&sig=MDvt7D74M5JPozL1HKnN1FEmxbY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vHJtUuneKJjb4APXq4CIAQ&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22inter%20urinas%20et%20faeces%20nascimur%22%20hyrtl&f=false For Hyrtl's quotation see http://books.google.com/books?id=qrEaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA820&dq=nascimur+inauthor:Hyrtl&hl=en&sa=X&ei=z3RtUru2LMzKkAfnm4DoAQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=nascimur%20inauthor%3AHyrtl&f=false.
Misattributed
Variant: We are born amid feces and urine.
“La Philosophie officielle et la philosophie”
Jules de Gaultier (1858–1942) French philosopher
1922
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Eliezer Yudkowsky (1979) American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher
We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think http://lesswrong.com/lw/jx/we_change_our_minds_less_often_than_we_think/ (October 2007)
“The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.”
Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) English poet and soldier (1893-1918)
Dulce et Decorum Est (1917)
Context: If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, —
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: [[w:Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori|Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.]]
Context: If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, —
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: [[w:Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori|Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori. ]]
“Therfore bihoveth hire a ful long spoon
That shal ete with a feend.”
Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales
The Squire's Tale, l. 594-95
The Canterbury Tales
“Communism, socialism, the welfare state, et cetera, are essentially one and the same thing.”
Leonard E. Read (1898–1983) American academic
Leonard Read Journals, November 5, 1951 https://history.fee.org/leonard-read-journal/1951/leonard-e-read-journal-november-1951/
“Libertas et natale solum:
Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Verses Occasioned by Whitshed's Motto on his Coach (1724); the Latin indicates "liberty and my native land", and Whitshed was a chief justice enraged by The Drapier's Letters
