“Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic….”
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Chester A. Arthur (1829–1886) American politician, 21st President of the United States (in office from 1881 to 1885)
First annual message (1881).
1880s
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
During an after-dinner discussion in Munich https://books.google.com/books?id=2zxfyeUHKEAC&pg=PA69 (1933), regarding the American Civil War <br class="br">Disputed, The Testament of Adolf Hitler (1945) <br class="br">Context: This is the last disgusting death-rattle of a corrupt and outworn system which is a blot on the history of this people. Since the civil war, in which the southern states were conquered, against all historical logic and sound sense, the American people have been in a condition of political and popular decay. In that war, it was not the Southern States, but the American people themselves who were conquered. In this spurious blossoming of economic progress and power politics, America has ever since been drawn deeper into the mire of progressive self-destruction. The beginnings of a great new social order based on the principle of slavery and inequality were destroyed by that war, and with them also the embryo of a future truly great America that would not have been ruled by a corrupt caste of tradesmen, but by a real Herren-class that would have swept away all the falsities of liberty and equality.
“There is a southern proverb—fine words butter no parsnips.”
Walter Scott book A Legend of Montrose
A Legend of Montrose (1819), Ch. 3.
“Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Speech http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKPOF-036-014.aspx to the Trustees and Advisory Committee of the National Cultural Center in the White House Movie Theater, 14 November 1961 <br class="br">1961
“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.”
Edward Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961)
Ernest Bevin (1881–1951) British labour leader, politician, and statesman
"Sir W. Churchill on 'a great Englishman'", The Times, 5 November 1953, p. 5
Winston Churchill's remarks on unveiling a bust of Bevin in the Foreign Office.
