William Cobbett (1763–1835) English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist
Letter to John Oldfield (6 June 1835), quoted in Ian Dyck, William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture (1992), p. 208
1830s
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“If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.”
Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
"Is Civilization Progress?" in Reader's Digest (July 1964)
“But I believe that God is overhead
And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.”
Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905) Children's writer, novelist, poet, editor
The Two Mysteries (1904).
Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist
Beth Pearson, "Has Howard got news for Boris?", The Herald (Glasgow), 13 November 2004, p. 15.
Explaining why he quit after a week as a management consultant.
2000s, 2004
“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”
George Orwell The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
The Lion and the Unicorn (1941), Part I: England Your England http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/lionunicorn.html <br class="br">"The Lion and the Unicorn" (1941) <br class="br">Source: The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius <br class="br">Context: As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.<br>They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are ‘only doing their duty’, as the saying goes. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life.
