Coffland Military Quotes & Sayings

The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the people. They seem, in some measure, voluntary; since a man may choose how far he will use the commodity: They naturally produce sobriety and frugality, if judiciously imposed: And being confounded with the natural price of the commodity, they are scarcely perceived by the consumers. Their only disadvantage is that they are expensive in the levying. — David Hume

Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always been unwilling to isolate their origins from the great ones who have gone before. — Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett

Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it. — Horace

Why," said Arthur Dent, "isn't anyone ever pleased to see us? — Douglas Adams

If you need a door kicked in, just call, and we'll kick it. Now, it may not always be the answer you want, but you will get an answer. — Dan Webster

We're all related. We're all a family. — Jack Johnson

Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody - except bad people. — Charlton Heston

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people. — Edna O'Brien

Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about. Where I may read at all my ease both of the new and old, For a jolly good book whereon to look is better to me than gold — John Wilson

You can't say for certain what will happen to the weather in the long term. — Christopher Monckton

I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass. — Herman Melville