William Cobbett (1763–1835) English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist
“To Parson Malthus,” Political Register (8 May 1819).
“The best things in life cannot be willed into being.”
Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 114
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2017, Farewell to Staff Members (January 2017)
Context: Our democracy is not the buildings, not the monuments. It's you being willing to work to make things better and being willing to listen to each other and argue with each other and come together and knock on doors and make phone calls and treat people with respect. And that doesn't end. This is just... this is just a little pit stop. This is not a period, this is a comma in the continuing story of building America.
