Burtka Johnny Quotes & Sayings

Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law. — A. V. Dicey

It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the circulation of the idea among the classes which in his judgment are not to be trusted with the idea. — Walter Lippmann

When you come back - and you will come back - I'm gonna fuck you, soldier, like you just came home from war. — Robert Swartwood

That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them. — L.M. Montgomery

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. — Barry Goldwater

An insane person is, basically, someone that isn't true to himself and lives between the reality he understands and the distorted perspective of it that he's trying to control. And the bigger this gap is, the more you can be sure to be in front of a neurotic or psychotic individual. — Daniel Marques

I succumbed to hedonism. — Simon Le Bon

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. — Benjamin Disraeli

Shore up the mean with reverence and terror. But never banish terror from the gates of the state. The stronger the fear, the stronger the reverence for the just, the stronger your country's wall and the city's safety. — Simon Critchley

All members must have a chance to shine — Sunday Adelaja

Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked. — Ed Sheeran

I've become a lot more relaxed about my career, but maybe that's a part of growing up. I realise there are things I hold dear and value, aside from professional achievements. — Martin Henderson

It is thus evident that Rhetoric does not deal with any one definite class of subjects, but, like Dialectic, [is of general application]; also, that it is useful; and further, that its function is not so much to persuade, as to find out in each case the existing means of persuasion. — Aristotle.

The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos. — Victor Davis Hanson