#thin

Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare. ↗

— Dudley North

#give #i #i can #instance #mine

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful. ↗

— Edmund H. North

#emotional #getting #luxury #much #painful

I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk. ↗

— Edmund H. North

#calculated #calculated risk #difference #gamble #i

In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children. ↗

— Oliver North

#better #book #changed #children #dozen

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office. ↗

— David Cone

#any #closet #far #i #many

I graduated from college in Ohio and bummed around for a while, and then I joined VISTA, which was a domestic Peace Corps kind of thing, and they sent me to Colorado. ↗

— Mojo Nixon

#bummed #college #colorado #corps #domestic

Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me. ↗

— Mojo Nixon

#actually #don henley #fast #got #henley

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband. ↗

— Pat Nixon

#career #consider #everything #husband #i

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#any #certainly #job #man #next

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#another #being #bottom #crisis #easy