#mer

We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged. ↗

— John Edward Redmond

#been #commerce #engaged #loathe #navy

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#best #best way #delight #drop #exciting

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#claims #defending #dull #evils #exposing

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#aid #always #american #american people #being

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#define #know #like #obscenity #see

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it. ↗

— Arthur Cohn

#behind #distributor #film #means #nothing

My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#america #debate #died #engage #family

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe. ↗

— Usher

#achieve #believe #dreamers

A melody is not merely something you can hum. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#melody #merely #something #you

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#continued #few #good #i #indicated