Is that the Craig Jurgesen that Teddy Roosevelt gave you?... And you used it at San Juan Hill defending liberty. Now you want to d...estroy it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mac: We've gone to a heap of trouble not to have at least one hanging. Abraham Lincoln: Sure you have, Mac. And if these boys... had more than one life, I'd say go ahead. Maybe a little hangin' mightn't do 'em any harm. But the sort of hangin' you boys'd give 'em 'd be so, so permanent. Trouble is when men start takin' the law into their own hands they're just as apt in all the confusion and fun to start hangin' somebody who's not a murderer as somebody who is. And the next thing you know, they're hangin' one another just for fun, 'til it gets to a place a man can't pass a tree or look at a rope without feeling uneasy. We seem to lose our heads in times like this. We do things together that we'd be mighty ashamed to do by ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are inf...luenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendour of those who eclipsed and preceded them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love your enemies. I saw this admonition now as simple, sensible advice. I knew I could face an angry, murderous mob without even ...the beginning of fear if I could love them. Like a flame, love consumes fear, and thus make true defeat impossible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labour in your fields and serve in your houses--that man your navy, a...nd recruit your army--that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »