
Source: Trysts with Democracy: Political Practice in South Asia, p. 80
Book 2, Chapter 5 “A Question of Attitudes” (p. 370)
The Steel Tsar (1981)
Source: Trysts with Democracy: Political Practice in South Asia, p. 80
1963, President John F. Kennedy's last formal speech and public words
Context: I think the United States should be a leader. A country as rich and powerful as this which bears so many burdens and responsibilities, which has so many opportunities, should be second to none. And in December, while I do not regard our mastery of space as anywhere near complete, while I recognize that there are still areas where we are behind — at least in one area, the size of the booster — this year I hope the United States will be ahead. And I am for it. We have a long way to go. Many weeks and months and years of long, tedious work lie ahead. There will be setbacks and frustrations and disappointments. There will be, as there always are, pressures in this country to do less in this area as in so many others, and temptations to do something else that is perhaps easier. But this research here must go on. This space effort must go on. The conquest of space must and will go ahead. That much we know. That much we can say with confidence and conviction.
“This place makes me think about the mistakes I've made in the past… and I've made so many of them.”
To Yugao, about Obito's name engraved in the Memorial Stone
Speech to the Bar Association of Boston, in Speeches (1913), p. 85.
1910s
Mobutu explaining the reasons behind his November 1965 coup. Young and Turner, p. 42
“Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.”
Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987), p. 113
“This bow I held had killed many men, and it had power, dread power, in its ebony stock.”
ibid
Drenai series, Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf
Walt Disney interview, New York Times, (March 1938).