June Callwood quotes

“The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.”
-- June Callwood

Source : June Callwood (1981). “Portrait of Canada”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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“If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have an obligation to do something.”
-- June Callwood

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“The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.”
-- June Callwood

Source : June Callwood (1981). “Portrait of Canada”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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“Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.”

Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.28, Transaction Publishers

“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

“Vote early and vote often.”

“Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoed it! I've dug in it! I've sprayed it! I've chopped it! I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it!”

“These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.”

“There's the really angry drunk, who's just annoying to be around. I prefer the drunk who falls all over the place and is being completely inappropriate. Or the super-loud, happy drunk, which is evidentially what I am.”

“I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.”

Source : Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly

“September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001”

“Like Lenin Comrade Stalin is a leader of a higher type. He is a mountain eagle, without fear in the fight, who boldly leads the bolshevik party on unexplored roads toward the total victory of Communism.”

Source : Statement of 13 March 1939, as quoted in "Facts on Communism" by the United States Congress, (p. 157), 1960.

“We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.”