Source: Benjamin Cummings Truman, The Field of Honor (1884), pg 23
“A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between.”
Deputy Governor Danforth
The Crucible (1953)
Context: A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise time — we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world.
Source: Violence and the Labor Movement (1914), p. 94
“I am starting to believe you are not intending to count me amongst your friends.”
Last words, said just before he was executed by a firing squad during the spanish civil war.
Source: http://www.generalisimofranco.com/caidos/varios/00003.htm Eduardo Palomar Baró, Pedro Muñoz Seca (1881 - 1936)
“A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic… or more utterly moronic?”
Source: The Duke and I
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“We are journalists, and our mission is clear – to distinguish between facts and fiction.”
Homage to Catalonia (1938)
Context: The fat Russian agent was cornering all the foreign refugees in turn and explaining plausibly that this whole affair was an Anarchist plot. I watched him with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies — unless one counts journalists.
“a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)”
Source: The American Presidency
“To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.”
Source: Evil Under the Sun
“You must understand that ordinary efforts do not count; only superefforts count.”
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
