“In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.”
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.”
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
“Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.”
“Those braying sheep on my TV screen -
Make this boy shout! Make this boy scream!”
Going Underground (1980)
“To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (30 May 1902); also in Mark Twain : A Life, p. 611
1960s, Inaugural address (1965)
Interludes, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands”
Source: A Key into the Language of America (1643), Ch. 16 "Of the Earth and the Fruits thereof."
Context: The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands, belonging to this or that prince or people, even to a river, brook, &c. And I have known them make bargain and sale amongst themselves for a small piece or quantity of ground; notwithstanding a sinful opinion amongst many, that christians have right to heathen's land.
“Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.”
Source: On answering the question "Why can't the Kashmir question be resolved?" Yale Daily News, Review of Guest Speaker Dr Munir Butt, 1994