#tory

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#england #history #i #ireland #kept

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#become #defeat #either #every #everything

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#be strong #brave #build #defeat #enough

In war there is no substitute for victory. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#victory #war

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#bay #died #filthy #hard #i

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#accorded #advance #been #century #contribution

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work. ↗

— Ali MacGraw

#fashion #getting #husbands #i #know

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

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#object #oratory #persuasion #truth

I was looking at a photograph of the 1997 election campaign yesterday, and I thought: 'My God. Did I really have that hairstyle? And that Tory blue suit?' ↗

— Theresa May

#campaign #did #election #god #hairstyle