
Source: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
The Friend, No. 14
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
Source: I Capture the Castle
“To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“And marbled clouds go scudding by
The many-steepled London sky.”
Source: Selected Poems
“They say the church spire interferes with their bloody television reception.”
Fiction, The Right to an Answer (1960)
1830s
Context: In the outset, I must deny the charge made personally against myself, and against the Government to which I belong, of an identification with the interests of other nations... I am satisfied that the interest of England is the Polar star—the guiding principle of the conduct of the Government; and I defy any man to show, by any act of mine, that any other principle has directed my conduct, or that I have had any other object in view than the interests of the country to which I belong.
Speech in the House of Commons (19 March 1839), quoted in George Henry Francis, Opinions and Policy of the Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B., M.P., &c. as Minister, Diplomatist, and Statesman, During More Than Forty Years of Public Life (London: Colburn and Co., 1852), p. 407.
To Leon Goldensohn, February 4, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.