Ted Nugent (1948) American rock musician
Give Trump the Medal of Freedom (August 7, 2015)
Source: https://www.factcheck.org/2018/09/shaq-didnt-call-trump-the-best-president/
“The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.”
Source: Jefferson the Virginian
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Wallace Brett Donham (1877–1954) American academic
As cited by Drew Gilpin Faust, " Harvard Business School Centennial http://www.harvard.edu/president/speech/2008/harvard-business-school-centennial," at harvard.edu, October 14, 2008. <br class="br">"The Failure of Business Leadership and the Responsibility of the Universities", 1933
“719. One sword keepes another in the sheath.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.”
Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) American Supreme Court Justice
Dissent, New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann, 285 U.S. 262 (1932).
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Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“We shall never sheathe the sword, which we have not lightly drawn”
H. H. Asquith (1852–1928) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech at Guildhall, 9 November 1914; see
Context: We shall never sheathe the sword, which we have not lightly drawn, until Belgium recovers in full measure all, and more than all, that she has sacrificed; until France is adequately secured against the menace of aggression; until the rights of the smaller nationalities of Europe are placed upon an unassailable foundation; and until the military domination of Prussia is wholly and finally destroyed.
“To a political mind, everything is politics.”
Charles Sheffield book Proteus In The Underworld
Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 3 (p. 23)