Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Source: Woman, Church and State (1893), p. 543 as quoted in K. M. Talreja, Holy Vedas and Holy Bible: A Comparative Study https://books.google.com/books?id=9qkoAAAAYAAJ, New Delhi: Rashtriya Chetana Sangathan, 2000
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
“The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.”
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist
As quoted in Quotations for Our Time (1977), by Laurence J. Peter, p. 509
1970s
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2014, Statement on Cuban policy (December 2014)
Context: While I have been prepared to take additional steps for some time, a major obstacle stood in our way –- the wrongful imprisonment, in Cuba, of a U. S. citizen and USAID sub-contractor Alan Gross for five years. Over many months, my administration has held discussions with the Cuban government about Alan’s case, and other aspects of our relationship. His Holiness Pope Francis issued a personal appeal to me, and to Cuba’s President Raul Castro, urging us to resolve Alan’s case, and to address Cuba’s interest in the release of three Cuban agents who have been jailed in the United States for over 15 years.
Today, Alan returned home –- reunited with his family at long last. Alan was released by the Cuban government on humanitarian grounds. Separately, in exchange for the three Cuban agents, Cuba today released one of the most important intelligence agents that the United States has ever had in Cuba, and who has been imprisoned for nearly two decades. This man, whose sacrifice has been known to only a few, provided America with the information that allowed us to arrest the network of Cuban agents that included the men transferred to Cuba today, as well as other spies in the United States. This man is now safely on our shores.
Having recovered these two men who sacrificed for our country, I’m now taking steps to place the interests of the people of both countries at the heart of our policy.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Answer to Lyman Abbott (unfinished), responding to Abbott, Lyman. "Flaws in Ingersollism." The North American Review 150, no. 401 (1890): 446-457.
Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917–1979) Prime Minister of Afghanistan
As quoted in Rodric Braithwaite (2010) Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89, page 65.
Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Speech given in Honduras, November 1998, following Hurricane Mitch
Edward S. Herman (1925–2017) American journalist
Source: The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, with Noam Chomsky, 1979, p. 1.
“Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.”
Sinclair Lewis book It Can't Happen Here
Source: It Can't Happen Here
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)