“When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.”
Source: Women in Love
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House of Lords debate http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200405/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds05/text/51026-16.htm on "bird flu", 26 Oct 2005; quoted by United Kingdom Parliament World Wide Web Service.
“Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something”
Source: Six Years
“In our proposed budget, we spend more money on education than ever before.”
" State of the State Address: A New Direction for Maryland http://governor.maryland.gov/2015/02/04/state-of-the-state-address/" (4 February 2015)
Source: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1970/nov/26/industrial-relations#column_666 in the House of Commons against the Industrial Relations Bill (26 November 1970)
"Democratic Ideals" in The Outlook (15 November 1913) https://books.google.com/books?id=1LpOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA589
1910s
Speech before Congress (April 4, 1917), Congressional Record—Senate, April 4, 1917, 224–225.
Context: Mr. President, I had supposed until recently that it was the duty of senators and representatives in Congress to vote and act according to their convictions on all public matters that came before them for consideration and decision. Quite another doctrine has recently been promulgated by certain newspapers, which unfortunately seems to have found considerable support elsewhere, and that is the doctrine of “standing back of the President” without inquiring whether the President is right or wrong.
For myself, I have never subscribed to that doctrine and never shall. I shall support the President in the measures he proposes when I believe them to be right. I shall oppose measures proposed by the President when I believe them to be wrong.
Third Presidential Debate http://www.npr.org/2012/10/22/163436694/transcript-3rd-obama-romney-presidential-debate (22 October 2012)
2012
George Santayana, in a letter to Henry Ward Abbot, December 1886. As quoted in A Philosophical Novelist: George Santayana and The Last Puritan, edited by H. T. Kirby-Smith (Southern Illinois University Press, 1997)
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“I think we shall have to give the region a name. What do you propose?”
"The Porter settled that some time ago," said the Second Voice. "Train for Niggle's Parish in the bay."
Leaf by Niggle (1945)