#de

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#being pretty #brother #eat #grandma #hit

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #dress #flaw #implies #mind

Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#case #claim #end #events #future

I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues. ↗

— James Meade

#any #century #comparable #economic #economic policy

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#grand jury #hears #jury #only #prosecutor

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#cease #clinton #despicable #did #him

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#been #bid #birth #country #death

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#build #good #good government #government #great

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television. ↗

— Michael Medved

#cable tv #conservatives #despite #disregarded #excluded

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later. ↗

— Michael Medved

#california #course #defeat #four #governor