“I think Rumsfeld was not a good Defense Secretary. I'm glad he's gone.”
William Kristol (1952) American writer
Referring to the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld in an interview with The Daily Show's Jon Stewart
2000s
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Eleanor H. Porter10
American novelist 1868–1920Related quotes
William Tyndale (1494–1536) Bible translator and agitator from England
Selected Writings (2003) edited by David Daniell
“Gold is good in its place; but living, brave, and patriotic men are better than gold.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1860s, On Democratic Government (1864)
Context: But the election, along with its incidental and undesirable strife, has done good, too. It has demonstrated that a people's government can sustain a national election in the midst of a great civil war. Until now, it has not been known to the world that this was a possibility. It shows, also, how sound and strong we still are. It shows that even among the candidates of the same party, he who is most devoted to the Union and most opposed to treason can receive most of the people's votes. It shows, also, to the extent yet known, that we have more men now than we had when the war began. Gold is good in its place; but living, brave, and patriotic men are better than gold.
“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”
Robert James Waller The Bridges of Madison County
Source: The Bridges of Madison County
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality
Henry David Thoreau book A Plea for Captain John Brown
A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)
Context: I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came? — till you and I came over to him? The very fact that he had no rabble or troop of hirelings about him would alone distinguish him from ordinary heroes. His company was small indeed, because few could be found worthy to pass muster. Each one who there laid down his life for the poor and oppressed was a picked man, culled out of many thousands, if not millions; apparently a man of principle, of rare courage, and devoted humanity; ready to sacrifice his life at any moment for the benefit of his fellow-man.
