Edmund Randolph famous quotes

to provide a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found it in the turbulence and trials of democracy....
-- Edmund Randolph

#Men #Evil #Historical

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.
-- Edmund Randolph

#Character #Men #Office

It would be a foetus of monarchy!
-- Edmund Randolph

#Would Be #Revolution #American Revolution

A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies
-- Edmund Randolph

#Freedom #Military #Mean

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.

...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.

By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.

Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.

I invented the historical spy novel.

The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism, but to a pure capitalist revo­lution. It runs in parallel with world-wide capitalist domination which, by successive steps, eliminates old feudal and Asiatic forms in various zones. While the historical situation in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries caused the capitalist revolution to take liberal forms, in the twentieth century it must have totalitarian and bureaucratic ones.