“Blacker, with the exception of Col Everest, was the ablest and most scientific man that ever presided over this expensive department”
Andrew Waugh quoted in J. R. Smith, Everest: The Man and the Mountain (1999), p. 226.
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As quoted in Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/senjohnmccain/status/3331878099 (2009)
2000s, 2009
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
April 5, 1776, p. 302
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
"The Uncreating Chaos"
The Still Centre (1939)
1830s, Sir Walter Scott (1838)
“A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.”
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (14 October 1988) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=107352
Third term as Prime Minister
Variant: A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 123
As quoted in Diary of Gideon Wells http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2713705.pdf?acceptTC=true (1861–1864), Volume I, p. 152.
Context: Mr. Bates was for compulsory deportation. 'The Negro would not', he said, 'go voluntary'. He had great local attachment but no enterprise or persistency. The President objected unequivocally to compulsion. The emigration must be voluntary and without expense to themselves. Great Britain, Denmark and perhaps other powers would take them. I remarked there was no necessity for a treaty which had been suggested. Any person who desired to leave the country could do so now, whether white or black, and it was best to have it so-a voluntary system; the emigrant who chose to leave our shores could and would go where there were the best inducements.
“Douglas, no man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.”
A retort to Stephen A. Douglas on the Senate floor, after the Illinois senator used an offensive slur in a speech. As quoted in Team of Rivals (2006), by Doris Kearns Goodwin (New York: Simon and Schuster), p. 163.
“Perhaps,
The man-hero is not the exceptional monster,
But he that of repetition is most master.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure