Nicholas Cresswell quotes

“The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.”
-- Nicholas Cresswell

Source : Nicholas Cresswell (2007). “The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell”, Applewood Books

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“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”

Source : 1931 'Too Much!'.

“If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.”

“Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality...”

“Public opinion in this country is everything.”

“Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest”

“Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.”

“Better to starve free than be a fat slave”

Source : Barbara McClintock, Aesop (2012). “Animal Fables from Aesop”, p.48, David R. Godine Publisher

“from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship”

“(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.”

Source : "Dreams of My Russian Summers". Book by Andreï Makine, September 6, 1995.

“A free man chooses, a slave obeys”