The "Quotes from Famous Folks" thread.

I figured this might be useful for anyone looking to replicate quotes from famous individuals on their timelines.

Here, I'll start:

"Give me liberty, or give me death!"
-Patrick Henry

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
-Bill Clinton, on Monica Lewinsky.

Also, could someone sticky this? :D
 
Are you joking?

Is nobody seriously interested? This could be a very helpful thread, unless somebody's already done one of these........
 
"I am not a crook"
-Richard Milhouse Nixon

"No Battle Plan ever survives contact with the enemy"
-Helmuth Von Moltke the Elder

(If I spelled Nixon's middle name wrong tell me and I will fix it)
 
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world- Jack Layton
 
Aren't there already a lot of websites devoted to this? What do you think this thread could do better?
 
Here's a bunch I've collected for my atompunk timeline:

“I can't afford to differentiate between the incompetent and the unfortunate.” -Gen. Curtis LeMay

“Politics and the atom do not mix.” -Pres. Harry S Truman

“World government has become inevitable. The choice before us is whether this government shall be agreed upon or whether we shall elect to fight a catastrophic third world war to determine who shall be master.” -Arthur H. Compton

“Modern man is obsolete.” -Norman Cousins

“We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead. That is our business.” -Bernard Baruch, opening speech at UN atomic energy commission negotiations

“Once committed to the atom, it is impossible to draw back.” -Gen. Pierre Gallois

“It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter...” -Lewis L. Strauss

“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.” -Albert Einstein

“No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.” -Charles De Gaulle

“The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.” -Albert Einstein

“There are no total answers, no easy answers, no cheap answers to the question of protection from nuclear attack. But there are answers.” -Fallout Protection, Pamphlet from the Office of Civil Defense

“When will I be blown up?” -William Faulkner
 
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