#lain

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. ↗

— George McGovern

#acceptance #blind #call #country #deep

Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate. ↗

— James McGreevey

#being #campaign #democrat #described #eager

I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that. ↗

— Kevin McKidd

#because #cast #choice #end #every

I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation. ↗

— Timothy McVeigh

#bombing #clear #explain #government #i

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#death #england #entails #explains #history

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#explain #knowing #terms #theology #unknowable

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#centuries #explaining #terms #theologians #unknowable

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#among #derive #disputes #explain #how

I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#biggest problems #citizens #clear #clear message #constructive

Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#cost #everything #fantasy #great #great way