George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2005, Second Inaugural Address (January 2005)
“All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.”
Pomes All Sizes (1992)
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
1950s, Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)
Context: So it is that the laws most binding us as a people are laws of the spirit—proclaimed in church and synagogue and mosque. These are the laws that truly declare the eternal equality of all men, of all races, before the man-made laws of our land. And we are profoundly aware that—in the world—we can claim the trust of hundreds of millions of people, across Africa and Asia—only as we ourselves hold high the banner of justice for all.
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)
1970s, First Presidential address (1974)
Context: My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.
As we bind up the internal wounds of Watergate, more painful and more poisonous than those of foreign wars, let us restore the golden rule to our political process, and let brotherly love purge our hearts of suspicion and of hate.
“He laughs best who laughs last.”
John Vanbrugh (1664–1726) English architect and dramatist
The Country House, Act II, sc. v (1706)
“Men of all lands and climes are brothers.”
Joseph H. Hertz (1872–1946) British rabbi
Genesis II, 7 (p. 7)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751) English politician and Viscount
Some Reflections on the Present State of the Nation (1753)
“The world is not our imagination but our nightmare, full of inconceivable surprises.”
Imre Kertész book Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)
“Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.”
Alan Ayckbourn (1939) English playwright
Preface to The Norman Conquests (New York: Grove Press, [1975] 1988) p. 11.