“We were dragged into folly by the Americans over Iran. We were dragged into folly by the Americans over Afghanistan. Neither national interest nor moral obligation requires us to be dragged by them into folly over Poland.”
The Times (8 January 1982), from Simon Heffer, Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell (Phoenix, 1999), pp. 852-3
1980s
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Arthur M. Jolly, in The Questionnaire http://the-questionnaire.com/2010/05/17/arthur-m-jolly/ (2010)
Interviews and profiles
“mind can drag the body and body can never drag the mind”
The lecture in Ashland, Oregon (8th of July 2005)
“We grabbed their hands and dragged them home. Ah, I hope they’ve forgiven me.”
On dragging his child stars out of a pub while directing The Railway Children; Times obituary 19 February 2010 http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article7034483.ece

“We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet.”
Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary (1987), p. 231
1980s and later
Context: We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last to lay the old aside, it might not be a better world, but it would be a lovelier language.

As quoted in Medenî Bilgiler ve M. Kemal Atatürk'ün El Yazıları [Civics and M. Kemal Atatürk's Manuscripts] (1998) by Afet İnan, p. 364

The History of Joseph Smith by His Mother (1853), "Rigdon's Depression"