“Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?”
Nikolai Gogol book The Government Inspector
Epigraph; said of a history teacher who smashed a chair in his excitement when discussing the conqueror
The Inspector General (1836)
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1849/feb/01/address-in-answer-to-the-speech in the House of Commons (1 February 1849). <br class="br">1840s
Yip Harburg (1896–1981) American song lyricist
As quoted in "A Tribute to Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz" at Democracy Now (25 November 2004) http://www.democracynow.org/2004/11/25/a_tribute_to_yip_harburg_the. <br class="br">Context: Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.<br>All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.<br>Socrates and Galileo, John Brown, Thoreau, Christ, and Debs<br>Heard the night cry down with traitors, and the dawn shout "Up the reds!"
Arthur Desmond (1859–1929) New Zealnd writer
Rival Caesars (1903)
Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 10, "The Further Adventures Of Toad"
Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States
Book II, ch. 3. <br class="br"> Knickerbocker's History of New York http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13042 (1809)
Eliezer Yudkowsky (1979) American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher
Guardians of Ayn Rand http://lesswrong.com/lw/m1/guardians_of_ayn_rand/ (December 2007)
“So great that John McCain is coming back to vote. Brave - American hero! Thank you John.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2017, July <br class="br">Source: Tweet by @realDonaldTrump https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/889798407228989441 (25 July 2017)
Dean Acheson book Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Purpose of the Book