
Attributed to Twain but never sourced, this quotation should not be regarded as authentic.
Misattributed
A collection of quotes on the topic of barrel, gun, use, likeness.
Attributed to Twain but never sourced, this quotation should not be regarded as authentic.
Misattributed
alt.fan.pratchett (30 May 1998) http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.pratchett/msg/31c9fbae84e0fc8c
Usenet
Statement first attributed in the New York Herald, (September 18, 1863) in response to allegations his most successful general drank too much; as quoted in Wit and Wisdom of the American Presidents: A Book of Quotations (2000) by Joslyn T. Pine, p. 26.
When some one charged Gen. Grant, in the President’s hearing, with drinking too much liquor, Mr. Lincoln, recalling Gen. Grant’s successes, said that if he could find out what brand of whisky Grant drank, he would send a barrel of it to all the other commanders.
The New York Times, October 30, 1863
Major Eckert asked Mr. Lincoln if the story of his interview with the complainant against General Grant was true. The story was: a growler called on the President and complained bitterly of General Grant’s drunkenness. The President inquired very solicitously, if the man could tell him where the General got his liquor. The man really was very sorry but couldn’t say where he did get it. The President replied that he would like very much to find out so he could get a quantity of it and send a barrel to all his Major Generals. Mr. Lincoln said he had heard the story before and it would be very good if he had said it, but he did not, and he supposed it was charged to him to give it currency. He then said the original of this story was in King George’s time. Bitter complaints were made to the King against his General Wolfe in which it was charged that he was mad. “Well,” said the King, “I wish he would bite some of my other Generals then.
Authenticity of quote first refuted in “The Military Telegraph During the Civil War in the United States” by William R. Plum, (1882).
Disputed
It undermines an international order where the rights of peoples and nations are upheld and can’t simply be taken away by brute force.
2014, Remarks to the People of Estonia (September 2014)
Speaking about the Trans Mountain Pipeline, as quoted by The Guardian, Canada approves controversial Kinder Morgan oil pipeline https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/29/canada-approves-kinder-morgan-oil-pipeline-justin-trudeau (30 November 2016).
2016
Source: 1910s, Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913), Ch. XI : The Natural Resources of the Nation, p. 386
Paragraph 78 (p. 13 of Welcome to the Monkey House)
Welcome to the Monkey House (1968), "Harrison Bergeron" (1961)
"I bid you farewell."
Burying the Hatchet - BP Closing Address at the 3rd World Jamboree, Arrowe Park, 12 August 1929
"Antigun Activist David Hogg Attacks Infowars For Gay Frogs" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN4pTxI12Hc&feature=youtu.be&t=19m59s, The Alex Jones Show, March 2018.
2014, Address to the United Nations (September 2014)
2014, 25th Anniversary of Polish Freedom Day Speech (June 2014)
“With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.”
“Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
Speech delivered at Luther College, Regina, Saskatchewan, March 16, 1973.
Interview with Lori Nelson http://www.westernclippings.com/interview/lorinelson_interview.shtml
“Democracy brought to others through the barrel of a gun is not democracy.”
Hope and Memory: Reflections on the Twentieth Century (2003)
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), Clean Business
"A Conversation with the Inspector of Taxes about Poetry" (1926); translation from Chris Jenks Visual Culture (London: Routledge, 1995) pp. 86-7
On the prose of William S. Burroughs in Here to Go: Planet R-101 (Interviews with Terry Wilson),Tuning in to the Multimedia Age, p. 159.
Pena, sung by Jeff Cotton, better known as Antennae Jimmy Semens
Trout Mask Replica (1969)
Quote from an interview in 'Elsevier', 22 December, 1990; translated and quoted by Frank van der Ploeg, in 'The Low Countries'. Jaargang 12 (2004) http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_low001200401_01/_low001200401_01_0027.php
2014, Speech: Sponsorship Speech for the FY 2015 National Budget
“I have nothing to say on any historical topic.”
Girl, Interrupted (1994)
Escudero, F. [Francis]. (2014, May 28). Retrieved from Official Facebook Page of Francis Escudero https://www.facebook.com/senchizescudero/posts/10152473011595610/
2014, Facebook
Source: Murdoch praises Blair's 'courage' http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/feb/12/uk.iraqandthemedia
Opening remarks at the OPEC Summit, November 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7100175.stm
2007
2014, Speech: Sponsorship Speech for the FY 2015 National Budget
" Galloway v the US Senate: transcript of statement http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1616578,00.html", The Times, May 18, 2005
Testimony before the US Senate on May 17, 2005.
"Let Milo Design The Wall" http://www.thelibertyconservative.com/let-milo-design-wall/ The Liberty Conservative, March 3, 2017
2010s, 2017
Republican Presidential Debate, Manchester, New Hampshire, June 5, 2007 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/05/se.01.html
2000s, 2006-2009
North and South Trilogy (1982-1987), Answer the Drum
About disagreements in which routes to take on the way to California
The West (1996)
Scorched Earth: Restoring the Country after Obama (2016)
“20. You cannot know wine by the barrell.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
brothers Van Gogh
Source: 1940 - 1960, Les frères Van Gogh, origine et justification', c. 1955, p. 66
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
Interaksyon http://www.interaksyon.com/article/75681/senate-approves-2014-national-budget-on-third-and-final-reading
2013
2014, Speech: Sponsorship Speech for the FY 2015 National Budget
Contentment, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
2014, Speech: Sponsorship Speech for the FY 2015 National Budget
Response to question from reporters as to who are the enemy in the above comment.
[PEOPLE:Aykroyd a man of the world, but which one?, STEVE, EDDY, Orange County Register, Santa Ana, Calif., December 2, 2004]
Pogo comic strip (1948 - 1975), Others
“I got a scope on the barrel thats a hammer with a camera”
Bottles and Rockin J's Game Featuring DJ Khaled, Busta Rhymes, Rick Ross, Fabolous, Lil Wayne, and Teyana Taylor
Official Mix tapes, Guest appearances
Source: "What Is an Administrator?" 1936, p. 6-7; As cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 658
" Keep Rush Limbaugh Out of the NFL http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/20227", Fox Sports, October 13, 2009.
Speech as Vice President to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, West Palm Beach, Florida (26 January 1974); entered into the Congressional Record vol. 120, p. 2044.
1970s
During a speech to President Gerald Ford celebrating the 200th anniversary of American independence. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Q
" After Apple Picking http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/after-apple-picking-3/"
1910s
Source: The Works of the Right Reverend George Horne, 1809, p. 220 ; As quoted in Allibone (1880)
Discussing his views on Africans and "Instant Carbohydrate Gratification" The Spectator 2 February 2002
2000s, 2002
Source: Life Itself : A Memoir (2011), Ch. 54 : How I Believe In God
Source: 2010s, 2015, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again (2015), p. 96
p, 125
Ken Kern's Masonry Stove (1983)
"The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism", a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921
Hugo Chávez at a press conference in New Delhi, after signing a cooperative agreement with India's hydrocarbon sector, March 2005.
2005
The Century magazine (1892)
Song A Bushel and a Peck.
Quote in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 23
1920's, My life (1922)
Oriana Fallaci (December 30, 1973), The Mystically Divine Shah of Iran (interview), Chicago Tribune
Interviews
“You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.”
As quoted in The Daily Show, (27 June 2006).
"The Battle of New Orleans" (1936)
Context: We fired our cannon 'til the barrel melted down,
So we grabbed an alligator an' we fought another round.
We filled his head with cannon balls an' powdered his behind,
An' when they touched the powder off, the 'gator lost his mind.
“Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
Chapter 5 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch05.htm, originally published in Problems of War and Strategy (November 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224.
Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)
Phone interview on The Majority Report, 2004-04-02
"School strike for climate - save the world by changing the rules" https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/greta-speeches#greta_speech_tedx, TEDxStockholm (24 November 2018)
2018
Heydrich recited this, one of his father's operas, on his deathbed during one of Himmler's visits on 2 June 1941.
Source: [Lehrer, Steven, Steven Lehrer, 2000, 86, Wannsee House and the Holocaust, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 978-0-7864-0792-7, harv]
Richard Roxburgh on Rake, Donald Trump and the 'immeasurable madness' of the nanny state https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/may/17/richard-roxburgh-on-rake-donald-trump-and-the-immeasurable-madness-of-the-nanny-state (May 17, 2016)
Quoted in "Mukesh Dhirajlal Ambani, Anil Dhirajlal Ambani" in page=15
From "Film as catharsis". Haneke, Michael – "Film als Katharsis": in Austria (in)felix: zum österreichischem Film der 80er Jahre – Bono, Francesco (ed.), 1992. ISBN 3-901272-00-3
I mean, if they can do it I can do it. There's nothing that special about anyone, really.
Interview to L'Officiel (2018)