Address to the United Nations Fourth Committee in New York
2015
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1778) British politician
Denouncing the Spanish Convention of Pardo in the House of Commons (6 March 1739), quoted in William Pitt, The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of Lords and Commons: With a Biographical Memoir and Introductions and Explanatory Notes to the Speeches (London: Aylott & Jones, 1848), pp. 6-7.
“As there was no liberty in Spain, how could liberty be transmitted to Spanish colonies?”
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument (1843)
Context: From the time of its discovery, the Spanish government pushed forward its settlements in America, not only with vigor, but with eagerness.... The robbery and destruction of the native race was the achievement of standing armies, in the right of the king, and by his authority, fighting in his name, for the aggrandizement of his power and the extension of his prerogatives, with military ideas under arbitrary maxims, — a portion of that dreadful instrumentality by which a perfect despotism governs a people. As there was no liberty in Spain, how could liberty be transmitted to Spanish colonies?
“You must leave, now take what you need, You think will last.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Sukarno (1901–1970) first President of the Republic of Indonesia
Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference
“If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.”
Norman Douglas (1868–1952) British writer
Taisen Deshimaru (1914–1982) Japanese Buddhist monk
As quoted in A Galaxy Not So Far Away : Writers and Artists on Twenty-five Years of Star Wars (2002) by Glenn Kenny, p. 99
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Orders to the Secretary of War https://books.google.com/books?id=uEc_cG58dZQC&pg=PA19 (1 February 1864) <br class="br">1860s
“We must clear away, simplify, eradicate.”
Alain (1868–1951) French philosopher
The Prophetic Soul
Alain On Happiness (1928)
“You must be painter who takes a canvas and does what he likes with it.”
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007) Italian film director and screenwriter
Encountering Directors interview (1969)
Context: You must be painter who takes a canvas and does what he likes with it. We are more like painters in past centuries who were ordered to paint frescoes to specific measurements. Among the people in the fresco may be a bishop, the prince's wife, etc. The fresco isn't bad simply because the painter used for models people from the court of the prince who ordered and paid for it.
