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"You
will find that the State is the kind of
organization which, though it
does big
things badly, does small things badly, too."
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908- ) Canadian-born economist, Harvard
professor
"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the
troubled sea of thought."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the
comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing
influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor
modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland."
John Kenneth Galbraith, Source: The Affluent Society, 1976
"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be
right alone."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"In the struggle of Good against Evil, it's always the people who get killed."
Eduardo Galeano
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense,
reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
Galileo Galilei
"All truths are easy to
understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
Galileo Galilei
"Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked "Brightness," but it doesn't work."
Gallagher
"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
John Galsworthy
"We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no
war. And we none of us believe it."
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?"
(Mohandas
Karamchand) (1869-1948)
Indian Social Reformer and
Spiritual Leader, in Non-Violence
in Peace and War [1949]
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become
error because nobody sees it."
Mohandas Gandhi
"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."
Mohandas Gandhi
"I
look upon an increase of the power of the State
with the greatest
fear, because although while apparently doing good by minimizing
exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying
individuality, which lies at the root of all progress. We know of so
many cases where men have adopted trusteeship, but none where the State
has really lived for the poor."
Mahatma
Gandhi
"One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is
inhuman."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The
state represents violence in a concentrated and
organized form.
The individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it
can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence."
Mahatma Gandhi
"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
Mahatma Gandhi
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is
only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
Mahatma
Gandhi
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never
imprison my mind."
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
"My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as
the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the
weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy
cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by
the people of every village."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act
depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
Mahatma Gandhi
"It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does
not at all believe exists."
Mohandas Gandhi
"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."
Jerry Garcia, (1942-1995) US guitarist, singer (Grateful Dead)
"An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
"I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against
popular error."
James Garfield, (1831-1881) 20th President of the United States (1881)
"All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people."
James Garfield
"I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty."
James Garfield
"I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came."
James Garfield
"I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else."
James Garfield
"Ideas control the world."
James Garfield
"If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it."
James Garfield
"An Englishman who was wrecked on a strange shore and wandering along the coast ... came to a gallows with a victim hanging on it, and fell down on his knees and thanked God that he at last beheld a sign of civilization."
James A. Garfield, (House of Representatives speech, June 15, 1870)
"The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy."
Garet Garrett, (1878-1954) American Journalist and Author
"We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke between day and night: the precise moment does not matter. There was no painted sign to say: 'You now are entering Imperium.' Yet it was a very old road and the voice of history was saying: 'Whether you know it or not, the act of crossing may be irreversible.' And now, not far ahead, is a sign that reads: 'No U-turns.'"
Garet Garrett
"The war had profoundly altered the significance and status of American industry. . . . During and after the war, industry came to be regarded as an attribute of state power, almost as clearly such as the military establishment. And why not? Security, independence, national welfare, economic advantage, diplomatic prestige--were not all as dependent upon efficient machine industry as upon an army or navy? . . . The new way of thinking about industry, therefore, was basically political. A factory thereafter would be like a ship - a thing to be privately owned and privately enjoyed only in time of peace, always subject to mobilization for war."
Garet Garrett
"The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back. " Steve Garvey, (1948- ) |
"This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention, the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State."
José Ortega y Gasset, (1883-1955) Spanish philosopher Source: Espana Invertebrada, 1922
"Just in terms of allocation of time resources,
religion
is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday
morning."
Bill
Gates, Microsoft
"(Patriotism) is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."
Charles de Gaulle, (1890-1970) French president and military leader
"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
Charles de Gaulle
"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you."
Larry Gelbart
"This war, like the next war, is a war to end war."
David Lloyd George, (1863-1945) British Prime Minister, President of the Board of Trade, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Arms Minister and War Minister
"Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies."
David Lloyd George
"War
has always been fatal to liberalism."
David Lloyd George
"We
are muddled into war."
David Lloyd George
"A
politician is a person with whose politics
you don't agree; if you
agree with him he's a statesman."
David Lloyd George
"If
you want to succeed in politics you must
keep your conscience firmly
under control."
David Lloyd George
"Death
is the most convenient time to tax rich people."
David Lloyd George, Lord Riddell's Intimate Diary of the Peace Conference and After [1933]
"Independent
thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of
mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue."
David Lloyd George
"It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve."
Henry George (1839-1897) American Economist and Author
"Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state"
Ira Gershwin, (1896-1983)
"A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O."
Ira Gershwin
"One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them."
Ira Gershwin
"Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair."
Ira Gershwin
"The neoconservatives have so changed conservatism that what we now identify as conservatism is largely what was once neoconservatism. And in so doing, they have defined the way that vast numbers of Americans view their economy, their polity, and their society."
Mark Gerson,
in 'The
Essential Neoconservative Reader'
"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights."
J. Paul Getty
"Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again and it blossoms in summer, filling the afternoons and evenings and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it. Rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops."A. Bartlett Giamatti |
"When
I was seven years old, my father took me to Fenway Park for
the first
time, and as I grew up I knew that as a building it was on the level
with
Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation's Capitol, the Czar's
Winter
Palace and the Louvre. Except, of course, that it was better than all
those
inconsequential places."
A.
Bartlett Giamatti"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
Edward Gibbon
"What
protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what
enemies seek to do to us in time of war."
Edward Gibbon
"In the end, more than they wanted freedom,
they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to
society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished
for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free."
Edward Gibbon,
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1909
"[I]t was artfully
contrived by Augustus that, in the enjoyment of plenty, the Romans
should lose the memory of freedom."
Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [1776]
"As
long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their
destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will
ever be the vice of exalted characters."
Edward Gibbon
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention."
Kahlil Gibran, (1883-1931) Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystical poet, and artist
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved,"The precursors to a civilization that's going under are the same, time and time again... What's human sacrifice if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason?"
but at what he aspires to do."
Kahlil Gibran
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."
Kahlil Gibran
"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the
plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging
the very hills?"
Kahlil Gibran
"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."
Kahlil Gibran
Mel Gibson, commenting on his film 'Apocalypto'
"This life is just a testing ground. It's not a popular view, I know. People will say that I'm sort of a mindless robot who's using religion as a crutch to get through life. Well, I'm not a mindless robot, but I am using [religion] as a crutch to get through life."
"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace."
Andre Gide, (1869-1951) French Author and 1947 Nobel Prize-Winner in Literature
"Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness."
Andre Gide
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very
long time."
Andre Gide
"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you."
André Gide
"My friends tell me I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions,
but they never tell me what I should do about it."
Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness (2006), Knopf
"Science still falls far short of developing satisfactory explanations of many crucial
phenomena, such as human consciousness, the Big Bang, the superluminal quantum entanglement
of photons across huge distances, even the bioenergetics of the brain of a fly in eluding
the swatter. The more we learn about the universe the more wide-open the horizons of
mystery. The pretense that Darwinian evolution is a complete theory of life is a huge
distraction from the limits and language, the rigor and grandeur, of real scientific
discovery. Observes Nobel-laureate physicist Robert Laughlin of Stanford: 'The Darwinian
theory has become an all-purpose obstacle to thought rather than an enabler of scientific
advance.'"
George Gilder, "Evolution and Me" National Review 17 July 2006
"Liberty is worth whatever the country is worth. It is by liberty that man has a country;
it is by liberty he has rights."
Henry Giles
"...(T)o those countries who claim we are using disproportionate force, I have only this to say: you're damn right we are!"
Dan Gillerman, Israel's UN Ambassador Dan Gillerman, Speech in front of the UN Building, New York, July 2006
"War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead."
"Comedians and politicians each tell the audience what it wants to hear. The difference is that the audience laughs at the comedian and the politician laughs at the audience."
"Only in Atheism does the spring rise higher than the source, the effect exist without
the cause, life come from a stone, blood from a turnip, a silk purse from a sow's ear, a
Beethoven Symphony or a Bach Fugue from a kitten walking across the keys....."
James M. Gillis
"Humanity's most valuable assets have been the non-conformists. Were it not for the non- conformists, he who refuses to be satisfied to go along with the continuance of things as they are, and insists upon attempting to find new ways of bettering things, the world would have known little progress, indeed."
Josiah William Gitt, (1884-1973) Source: Gazette and Daily, 2 February 1957
"It is, when strictly judged, an act of public immorality to form and lead an opposition on a certain plea, to succeed, and then in office to abandon it."
"We look forward to the time when the Power of
Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the
blessings of peace."
William Gladstone
"Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man."
"Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility."
William Godwin, (1756-1836)
"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."
William Godwin
"During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information."
Joseph Paul Goebbels, (1897-1945) Nazi Propaganda Minister
"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over"
Joseph Goebbels
"Why, of course,
the people
don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a
farm
want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it
is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people
don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor
for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is
the leaders of the country
who determine the policy and it is
always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a
democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a
Parliament or a Communist
dictatorship. ... (T)he people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you
have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to danger. It
works the same way in any country."
Herman Goering,
(1893-1946)
Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime
Minister of Prussia and, as Hitler's designated successor, the second
man in the Third Reich,
at the Nuremberg
trials
"I am what I have always been: the
last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so."
Hermann Goering
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
"Law givers or revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time are either utopian dreamers or charlatans."
"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean."
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
"In all things it is better to hope than to despair."
"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."
"Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of
the world."
"Altogether national hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and
most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
"Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; no, the older it is, and the more we
are accustomed to it, the greater its effect."
"We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are
engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them!"
"(The neocons are) Prussians, a new aristocracy of aggression that combines 19th-century Prussian pigheadedness with a most un-Prussian inability to read a map or a ledger book, and a near total lack of military - let alone combat - experience. Ask these people to show you their wounds, and they'll probably wave a Washington Post editorial at you."
Philip Gold, 'An Anti-War Movement of One'
"If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock."
Justice Arthur Goldberg
"[President Bush's] compassionate conservatism [involves] a core faith that not only can
the government love you, but it should spend money to prove its love. Beyond that, there
seems to be no core set of principles that define Bush's approach."
Jonah Goldberg
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
Emma Goldman, (1869-1940)
"There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim."
Emma Goldman, Source: My Disillusionment in Russia, 1923
"I love everything that's old,- old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."
Oliver Goldsmith: (1728-1774) Irish Writer, She Stoops to Conquer, act i.
"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."
Oliver Goldsmith
"Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as
good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and
let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny."
Barry Goldwater, (1909-1998) US Senator (R-Arizona)
Source: Senator Goldwater's Acceptance Speech at the Republican National Convention, 1964
| "The secret of my success
was clean living and a fast moving
outfield." Vernon "Lefty" Gomez, New York Yankees, Pitcher "I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death." Vernon "Lefty" Gomez "When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object. I knew immediately what it was. That was a home run ball hit off me in 1937 by Jimmie Foxx."Vernon "Lefty" Gomez |
"The orginization
of American society is an interlocking
system of semi-monopolies
notoriously venal, an electorate nororiously unenlightened, misled by a mass
media notoriously phony."
Paul Goodman
"Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident."
Walter Goodman
TOPPaul Goodman
"Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident."
Walter Goodman
"I once stood outside Fenway Park in Boston, a place where the ghosts never go away, and watched a vigorous man of middle years helping, with infinite care, a frail and elderly gentleman through the milling crowds to the entry gate. Through the tears that came unexpectadly to my eyes, I saw the old man strong and important forty years before, holding the hand of a confused and excited five-year-old, showing him the way. Baseball's best moments don't always happen on the field."
Alison Gordon, sportswriter, 1984
"Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full...."
"It is good for one to be free, and we would cherish liberty even if she traveled alone, but she does not. Because Prosperity and Peace are both the companions of Liberty."
Charles Goyette, "It Is Good for One to Be Free" [July 12, 2008]
"The church is the only conscience the government has. When the church is silent, the state can have no conscience."
Edward W. Grant
"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) (in Orwellian mode. RAB)
18th President of the United States and General-in-Chief, Army of the Potomac
"I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again."
Ulysses S. Grant
"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution."
Ulysses S. Grant
"I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle," and the other isn't."
Ulysses S. Grant
"If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail."
Ulysses S. Grant
"In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins."
Ulysses S. Grant
"It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training."
Ulysses S. Grant
"Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor."
Ulysses S. Grant
"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate."
Ulysses S. Grant
"Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions."
Ulysses S. Grant
"There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the
drawing of the sword."
General Ulysses S. Grant
"To maintain peace throughout the world, the grounds for conflict should be reduced as much as possible. The first step in this direction must be to respect and protect private property throughout the world. The ideal would also include complete freedom of trade and freedom of movement. Political boundaries would no longer be determined under threat of military conquest or aggressive economic nationalism, but rather by legal plebiscite, i.e., by vote of the individuals concerned. In such a world, the national sovereignty under which one lived or worked would be relatively immaterial."
Bettina
Bien Greaves, The Freeman [September 1979]
"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that
it prevents you from achieving."
Russell Green
"Most people say that as you get old you have to give up things. I think you get old because you do give up things."
Theodore Green, Politician "Distinguished and discreet spokesmen for the government haven't changed all that much since Pontius Pilate, who left the definition of truth to others. It wasn't his area."
"Amid the rubble and confusion of war, the stench of the dead and wails of the living, war offers a terrible clarity. Delusions crumble, propaganda can be seen for what it is, and diplomatic gestures are only that -- a cover for what war will decide."
"Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought."
Graham Greene, (1904-1991)
"This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the "hidden" confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard."
Alan Greenspan, "Gold and Economic Freedom" [1966]
"Everything the Federal Reserve does is based on a foundation of lies. It does not represent the free market. It does not curb corporate greed for the benefit of the little guy. It does not stabilize prices or the economy in general. It does not prevent inflation or the boom and bust cycle. Everything the establishment, both political parties, the mainstream media and the government have said about the Fed is the opposite of the truth."
Anthony Gregory, "The Fed and Its Lies" [November 25, 2008]
"To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism."
G. Edward Griffin, Historian, Author, Source: his book, The Freedom Manifesto, 2001
"Inflation has now been institutionalized at a fairly constant 5% per year. This has been determined to be the optimum level for generating the most revenue without causing public alarm. A 5% devaluation applies, not only to the money earned this year, but to all that is left over from previous years. At the end of the first year, a dollar is worth 95 cents. At the end of the second year, the 95 cents is reduced again by 5%, leaving its worth at 90 cents, and so on. By the time a person has worked 20 years, the government will have confiscated 64% of every dollar he saved over those years. By the time he has worked 45 years, the hidden tax will be 90%. The government will take virtually everything a person saves over a lifetime."
G. Edward Griffin, America Historian, Author
"Now let's see if I understand this correctly. President Clinton has ordered our forces to engage an entrenched, politically motivated enemy, backed by the Russians, on their home ground, in a foreign civil war, in difficult terrain, with limited military objectives, with bombing restrictions, boundary and operational restrictions, queasy allies, far across an ocean, with uncertain goals, without prior consultation with Congress, having the potential for escalation, while limiting the forces at his disposal, and while the majority of Americans are opposed to, or are at best uncertain about, the value of the action being worth American lives. ----- So, what was it that Clinton was opposed to during Vietnam?"
Lt. Gen. Tom
Griffin USA (ret.)
"The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians."
Angelica Grimke, (1805-1879) Source: Anti-Slavery Examiner, September 1836
Andrew Grooms
"Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves."
Hugo
Grotius
"I saw in the whole Christian world a
license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars
were begun on trifling pretexts or none at all, and carried on without
any reference of law, Divine or human."
Hugo
Grotius, Prolegomena to the Law of War and Peace [1625]
"He knows not how
to rule a kingdom, that cannot manage a province; nor
can he wield a province, that cannot order a city; nor he order a city,
that knows not how to regulate a village; nor he a village, that cannot
guide a family; nor can that man govern well a family that knows not
how to govern himself; neither can any govern himself unless his reason
be lord, will and appetite her vassals; nor can reason rule unless
herself be ruled by God, and be obedient to Him."
"The secret of my success
was clean living and a fast moving
outfield."
Vernon "Lefty" Gomez, New York Yankees, Pitcher
"I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death."
Vernon "Lefty" Gomez
Vernon "Lefty" Gomez, New York Yankees, Pitcher
"I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death."
Vernon "Lefty" Gomez
"When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object. I knew immediately what it was. That was a home run ball hit off me in 1937 by Jimmie Foxx."
Vernon "Lefty" Gomez"Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people."
Philip Guedalla
"Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves."