Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
General sources
Source: "The Poetry of Amy Lowell" in The Christian Science Monitor (16 May 1925)
“The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.”
Testimony on Internment of people of Japanese Ancestry before the House Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration (Tolan Committee) in 1941; of this statement Warren later said, in The Memoirs of Earl Warren (1977):
I have since deeply regretted the removal order and my own testimony advocating it, because it was not in keeping with our American concept of freedom and the rights of citizens. Whenever I thought of the innocent little children who were torn from home, school friends, and congenial surroundings, I was conscience-stricken. It was wrong to react so impulsively, without positive evidence of disloyalty, even though we felt we had a good motive in the security of our state. It demonstrates the cruelty of war when fear, get-tough military psychology, propaganda, and racial antagonism combine with one's responsibility for public security to produce such acts. I have always believed that I had no prejudice against the Japanese as such except that spawned by Pearl Harbor and its aftermath.
1940s
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Hideki Tōjō (1884–1948) former Prime Minister of Japan and Minister of War executed in 1948
Note signed by Tojo (June 1945), left at a camp during the Bataan Death March http://home.att.net/~betsynewmark3/DebateonBomb.htm. Possible forgery since Tojo was no longer in power for over a year at the time of the discovery. Also, the Japanese homeland was not threatened with invasion at the time and it was common sense that the Philippines would be attacked before. <br class="br">1940s
“It's very nice to be right sometimes … it has certainly been a long wait.”
Peter Higgs (1929) British physicist
In a press conference asked whether he felt a sense of vindication.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/jul/06/prof-higgs-nice-right-boson
Source: https://www.news.com.au/national/nice-to-be-right-says-peter-higgs-about-bosun-discovery/news-story/f87c237d7b51c8e067ed94e97ed0eb65
“Life is always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
Mike Godwin book Cyber Rights
Cyber Rights — cited in [Kim, June, Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age, Law Library Journal, American Association of Law Libraries, 96, 3, 542–544, Summer 2004]
Cyber Rights
Ann Coulter (1961) author, political commentator
As quoted in I Hate Ann Coulter! (2006) by Unanimous, p. 66.
2006
“Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear.”
Stanisław Leszczyński (1677–1766) king of Poland
No. 2.
Maxims and Moral Sentences
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Letter to Robert Applegarth (3 December 1869) <br class="br">Source: The Abolition of Landed Property http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1869/12/03.htm (3 December 1869)
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright