
From a speech (1933)
A collection of quotes on the topic of corps, use, army, state.
From a speech (1933)
“[A]bolish the name and appearance of a Black Corps.”
Recommendations to reorganize two Rhode Island regiments into integrated rather than segregated groups, in a letter to Major General William Heath (29 July 1780) http://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/the-only-unavoidable-subject-of-regret/, in The Writings of George Washington, 19:93. According to historian Robert A. Selig, the Continental Army exhibited a degree of integration not reached by the American army again for 200 years (until after World War II).
1780s
“The thing about the Army Corps of Engineers is that they don’t build things very well.”
Source: A Walk in the Woods (1997), Chapter 15 (p. 198)
Written in 1997, from the liner notes for Jazz Corps (1998)
1960s, State of the Union Address (1966)
1920s, Toleration and Liberalism (1925)
[Patterson, Robert, War Crimes, Three Rivers Press, February 26, 2008, 39, 0307338274]
The Posture of the United States Marine Corps http://www.hqmc.marines.mil/portals/142/docs/FY_2015_CMC_POSTURE_STATEMENT.pdf (2014)
2010s, 2018, Socialism is So Hot Right Now (2018)
2000s, 2002, State of the Union address (January 2002)
Address at the International Women's Day Conference (2013)
"Love, Poverty and War" http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=C78DC231-4599-4745-9CA5-A398398916A0, FrontPageMagazine.com (2004-12-29).
2000s, 2004
From Here to Eternity (1951)
[2008-03-07, http://www.jameswebb.com/speeches/iworeunion.htm, February 2000, Speech at Iwo Jima reunion]
Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/s11/churchill.html, September 12, 2001
The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (10/2/2005)
Interview with Katie Couric, on Today, quoted in "Coulter Declares 'Slander' In Couric 'Today' Show Match" in The Drudge Report (26 June 2002) http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2002/06/27/20020627_075636_flash.htm.
2002
2000s, 2002, State of the Union address (January 2002)
Source: A Man of Law's Tale (1952), In London, p. 286-7
“The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson’s on the main drag into maturity.”
Sunrise with Seamonsters (1985).
Additional Letters From The Federal Farmer, 169 (1788)
From King's Foreword in Battle Stations! Your Navy In Action (1946) by Admirals of the U.S. Navy, p. 10
p. 184. Detailing the salvaging of U.S.S. S-51.
A Manifesto for the Fast World, New York Times, March 28, 1999, 2010-06-28 http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/28/magazine/a-manifesto-for-the-fast-world.html,
http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/172/29945.html
Letter http://books.google.com/books?vid=0Fz_zz_wSWAiVg9LI1&id=vvVVhCadyK4C&pg=PA192&vq=%22impeachment+is+an+impracticable+thing%22&dq=%22jeffersons+works%22 to Thomas Ritchie (25 December 1820)
1820s
Farewell address to his brigade, as he left to receive his promotion to Major General (4 October 1861)
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 56
"The iPad faces industry backlash" in The Wall Street Journal MarketWatch (12 February 2010) http://marketwatch.com/story/apples-ipad-faces-industry-backlash-2010-02-12
2010s
Introduction
The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies (2016)
Quoington Star article entitled "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?", "The Coming Race War in America: A Wake-up Call" (1996)
Letter to Nele van de Velde ((daughter of Henry van de Velde), from Frauenkirch, 1919/20; as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, pp. 224-225
1916 - 1919
As quoted in "Voicing With a Heart" by Ernie Rideout, in Keyboard (August 2000)
Yours Zadkine.
Quote in a letter of Zadkine (in France) to his former art-teacher Yuri Moiseevich Pen in Vitebsk, Russia, 16 Nov. 1916 (transl. into Belorussian E.M. Kichina); as quoted in Vitebsk: The Life of Art, by Aleksandra Semenovna Shatskikh; Yale University Press, 2007, p. 19
1915 - 1940
"Dr Bill Cosby Speaks at the 50th Anniversary commemoration of the Brown vs Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court Decision," known as the "Pound Cake" speech (May 2004).
My father rose to the podium, stared down at the audience, and said without skipping a beat, "My God, it's hot in here! It must be at least 180 degrees".
Eulogy for a Fighter Pilot (1998)
2010s, 2018, A Free People Must Be Virtuous (2018)
December “IT’S A GAS”
The Sheep Look Up (1972)
"Revised Historiography", Liberty Bell magazine (April 1980)
1970s, 1980s
1963, Address at Vanderbilt University
1960s, State of the Union Address (1966)
1930s, State of the Union address (1935)
Hardball
MSNBC
2011-05-03, quoted in * Ron Paul on Hardball
Newbusters.org
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/05/14/ron-paul-accuses-chris-matthews-making-him-look-racist-bringing-civil
2011
Jerusalem Post (January 22, 2003), page 9.
Message to cadets at Xavier College in Ba, Fiji, 27 July 2005.
February “THE INDISPENSABLE ASSISTANTS”
The Sheep Look Up (1972)
Source: Radical Middle (2004), Chapter 12, "Bring Back the Draft, for Everyone This Time," p. 133.
Denouncing Moratorium Day protest against Vietnam War; in NY "Times," 20 Oct 69
Letter to the Abbé Arnoux (19 July 1787) https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-15-02-0275
1780s
Letter to Albert Gallatin, 1803. ME 10:437
Posthumous publications, On financial matters
autobiographical aside from Beyond Terror, p. 319. Originally part of an essay entitled "Hucksters in Uniform" which appeared in the May 1999 edition of The Washington Monthly.
1990s, Hucksters in Uniform (1999)
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 116.
Source: The 25-Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam (1984), p. 134
Written in 1852, as quoted in ch. 87.
The Female Experience (1977)
As interviewed by Richard, Olive, "Our Women are Our Future": Sylvia Family Circle, (Aug 14, 1944) 14-17, 19 as quoted in The Ages of Wonder Woman: Essays on the Amazon Princess in Changing Times, edited by Joeph J Darowski, p.7 in the essay "William Marston's Feminist Agenda", in Containing Wonder Woman: Fredric Wertham's Battle Against the Mighty Amazon by Craig This, p.32.
Sylvanus Thayer Award acceptance speech to the cadets of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (12 May 1962)
Concerning Operation Market Garden in his autobiography, 'The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery' (1958)
Order to corps, division, and post commanders https://books.google.com/books?id=wqJBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=%22but+also+in+removing+prejudices+against+them%22+%22grant%22&source=bl&ots=zG336mXnGl&sig=GPSCXL3D9zfrVo9I7G2ZcBv2j_o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCgQ6AEwA2oVChMI3KSiwcSkxwIVi6CACh1v9gF-#v=onepage&q=%22but%20also%20in%20removing%20prejudices%20against%20them%22%20%22grant%22&f=false, Milliken's Bend, Louisiana.
1860s
November 8, 2004
Questions asked at Press Conferences
2000s, 2002, State of the Union address (January 2002)
21 June 2018 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-cabinet-meeting-9/
From "OC Forum: O.C. Can You Say?" https://books.google.com/books?id=FhEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA8 in Orange Coast Magazine (July 1991), p. 8
Other Topics
Reporters and editors luncheon address (2007)
William N. Jeffers, Acting Secretary of the Navy 1879
Historical Records and Studies, Vol. VI (1911)
Interview with Ben Jacobs of The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/07/bill-de-blasio-interview-trump-rupert-murdoch.
On Coalition Government (1945)
Letter to George Washington (August 1778)
2000s, 2002, State of the Union address (January 2002)
“[An] Established Clergy will always be a tory Corps d'Armée.”
Letter to Sir William Harcourt (3 July 1885), quoted in H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), The Gladstone Diaries: Volume 10: January 1881-June 1883 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), p. clxix.
1880s
"At Large", speech at the Peace Corps twenty-fifth anniversary memorial service (21 September 1986), published in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 26
Context: nowiki>[George Washington] in uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life — one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough. Events enlarged his embrace to a wholly new idea of nation — the United States of America. But less than a century later his descendant by marriage could not slip the more parochial tether. In the halls of the family home standing on the hill above us, General Robert E. Lee paced back and forth as he weighed the offer of Abraham Lincoln to take command of the Union Army on the eve of the Civil War. Lee turned the offer down and that evening took the train to Richmond. His country was still Virginia. We struggle today with the imperative of a new patriotism and citizenship. The Peace Corps has been showing us the way, and the volunteers and staff whom we honor this morning are the vanguard of that journey.
Hearst newspaper column, (28 November 2001).
Letter to Evert Augustus Duyckinck (3 March 1849); published in The Letters of Herman Melville (1960) edited by Merrell R. Davis and William H. Gilman, p. 78; a portion of this is sometimes modernized in two ways:
Context: I do not oscillate in Emerson's rainbow, but prefer rather to hang myself in mine own halter than swing in any other man's swing. Yet I think Emerson is more than a brilliant fellow. Be his stuff begged, borrowed, or stolen, or of his own domestic manufacture he is an uncommon man. Swear he is a humbug — then is he no common humbug. Lay it down that had not Sir Thomas Browne lived, Emerson would not have mystified — I will answer, that had not Old Zack's father begot him, old Zack would never have been the hero of Palo Alto. The truth is that we are all sons, grandsons, or nephews or great-nephews of those who go before us. No one is his own sire. — I was very agreeably disappointed in Mr Emerson. I had heard of him as full of transcendentalisms, myths & oracular gibberish; I had only glanced at a book of his once in Putnam's store — that was all I knew of him, till I heard him lecture. — To my surprise, I found him quite intelligible, tho' to say truth, they told me that that night he was unusually plain. — Now, there is a something about every man elevated above mediocrity, which is, for the most part, instinctuly perceptible. This I see in Mr Emerson. And, frankly, for the sake of the argument, let us call him a fool; — then had I rather be a fool than a wise man. —I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go down stairs five miles or more; & if he don't attain the bottom, why, all the lead in Galena can't fashion the plumet that will. I'm not talking of Mr Emerson now — but of the whole corps of thought-divers, that have been diving & coming up again with bloodshot eyes since the world began.
I could readily see in Emerson, notwithstanding his merit, a gaping flaw. It was, the insinuation, that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions. These men are all cracked right across the brow. And never will the pullers-down be able to cope with the builders-up. And this pulling down is easy enough — a keg of powder blew up Block's Monument — but the man who applied the match, could not, alone, build such a pile to save his soul from the shark-maw of the Devil. But enough of this Plato who talks thro' his nose.
Interview by Adam Holdorf for Real Change News, (18 March 2004).
"At Large", speech at the Peace Corps twenty-fifth anniversary memorial service (21 September 1986), published in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 27<!-- italics in source -->
Context: As every volunteer testifies, the Peace Corps is more than a program or mission. It is a way of being in the world. This is a conservative notion because it holds dear the ground of one's own being — the culture and customs that gave meaning to a particular life. But it is a liberal notion for respecting the ground revered by others. This double helix in America's DNA may yet be the source of a new political and patriotism that could save us from toxic self-absorption.
Conclusion of Vandegrift's "Bended Knee Speech" to the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, delivered on May 6, 1946.