Bartleby.com combines the best of both contemporary and classic quotations collections into a searchable database of over 86,000 entries, the largest of its kind ever compiled.
Quotations of the Day: December 2001
December 31, 2001
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. —George C. Marshall
December 30, 2001
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. —Albert Einstein
December 29, 2001
The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself. —Dee Brown
December 28, 2001
There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind. —Woodrow Wilson
Bit by bit … she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. —Toni Morrison
December 25, 2001
The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. / Soldiers tied rags on their feet. / Red footprints wrote on the snow. —Carl Sandburg
December 24, 2001
Angels’ song, comforting / as the comfort of Christ / When he spake tenderly / to his sorrowful flock. —Robert Bridges
December 23, 2001
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters—not to talk in armies and nations and numbers—but to track it home. —D.H. Lawrence
December 22, 2001
We cannot know how much we learn / From those who never will return, / Until a flash of unforeseen / Remembrance falls on what has been. —Edwin Arlington Robinson
December 21, 2001
There has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings. —Dame Rebecca West
December 20, 2001
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time. —John Steinbeck
December 19, 2001
It is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease. —Tennessee Claflin
December 18, 2001
And am I born to die? / To lay this body down? / And must my trembling spirit fly / Into a world unknown? —Charles Wesley
December 17, 2001
The Night is Mother of the Day, / The Winter of the Spring, / And ever upon old Decay / The greenest mosses cling. —John Greenleaf Whittier
December 16, 2001
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. —George Santayana
December 15, 2001
Freedom derives from a multiplicity of sects, which pervade America, and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. —James Madison
December 14, 2001
When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it. —Margaret Chase Smith
December 13, 2001
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. —Phillips Brooks
December 12, 2001
Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power. —James Madison
December 11, 2001
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. —Solzhenitsyn
December 10, 2001
He ate and drank the precious Words, / His Spirit grew robust; / He knew no more that he was poor, / Nor that his frame was Dust. —Emily Dickinson
December 9, 2001
Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste / Brought death into the world, and all our woe. —John Milton
December 8, 2001
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. —James Thurber
December 7, 2001
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. —Larry Forrester
December 6, 2001
I sort of realize what we’re fighting for now, and I never did before. It’s for women like that and their kids. —Joyce Kilmer
December 5, 2001
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. —Andrew Jackson
December 4, 2001
How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they? —Thomas Carlyle
December 3, 2001
It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune—the ally of patient Time—that holds an even and scrupulous balance. —Joseph Conrad
December 2, 2001
I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.… They are nations of eternal war. —Thomas Jefferson
December 1, 2001
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world—the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. —David Ben-Gurion
