“Damnation on doubt. It kills more good sailors than round shot!”
A Tradition of Victory, Cap 15 "An Impudent Gesture"
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Interview for American Terrorist (2001) by Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck
2000s
[February 22, 2018, All-American Killer: How the AR-15 Became Mass Shooters’ Weapon of Choice, w:Tim Dickinson, Tim, Dickinson, Rolling Stone, September 4, 2018, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/all-american-killer-how-the-ar-15-became-mass-shooters-weapon-of-choice-107819/]
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”
Letter (6 September 1910) to his father, John Coolidge, who had been elected to the Vermont State Senate; in Your Son Calvin Coolidge, as cited in Silent Cal’s Almanack: The Homespun Wit and Wisdom of Vermont's Calvin Coolidge (2011), Ed. David Pietrusza, Bookbrewer, "Legislation".
1910s, Letter to John Coolidge (1910)
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 48
1910s, Address at Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1912)
“The following sailors assigned to a West Coast-based Naval Special Warfare unit were killed:”
:
Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 1st Class (SEAL) Jesse D. Pittman, 27, of Ukiah, Calif., and
Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 2nd Class (SEAL) Nicholas P. Spehar, 24, of Saint Paul, Minn.
The Savage Nation (1995- ), 2013
“As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.”
Column, The Miami Herald, 21 January 1996
Columns and articles
“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
[The Autumn of the Patriarch, 2006 [1976], HarperCollins, 978-0-06-088286-0, 254] translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa