Dutton Peabody: No, no, no, you don't. No. I'm a newspaperman not a politician. Politicians are my meat. I build 'em up. I tear 'e...m down. But I, I wouldn't be one. I couldn't. It'd, it'd destroy me. Gimme a drink. Tom Donophon: The bar is closed. Peabody: Good people of Shinbone, I, I, I'm your conscience. I'm the still small voice that thunders in the night. I'm your watchdog that howls against the wolves. I'm, I'm your father confessor. I, I, I'm, what else am I? Tom: The town drunk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly scept...ical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can assimilate and organize into a ...basis for action; give them more and it may become injurious. One knows people who are as heavy and stupid from undigested learning as other are from over-fulness of meat and drink.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.... People who have good jobs are ha...ppy, rich, and well dressed. People who have bad jobs are unhappy, poor and use meat extenders. Those who seek dignity in the type of work that compels them to help hamburgers are certain to be disappointed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for... a time, the meat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ...ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you ...can fool all of the people all of the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use th...eir best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »