#t

Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#could #i #keep #like #myself

And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#designer #favor #gay #i #son

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#belonged #country #emotionally #enormously #every

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#britain #canada #canadians #fervently #generation

I never wanted to be a pundit. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#never #wanted

We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#brothers #go #homes #istanbul #japan

I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware. ↗

— Diosdado Macapagal

#i #power #run #sat #sumptuous

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years. ↗

— Rose Macaulay

#against #anesthetic #blinding #brings #conscience

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#better #die #facing #fathers #fearful

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#down #fit #fool #free #freedom