Robert Goodloe Harper quotes

“Millions for defense but not a cent for tribute.”
-- Robert Goodloe Harper

Source : Toast at dinner for John Marshall, Philadelphia, Pa., 18 June 1798.

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“What one can be, one must be!”

“The world is witnessing first hand, live on television, the hearts ofAmerican warriors - and the spirit and pride only displayed by magnificent young men and women who are volunteers in the fight for the cause of freedom. Its all about heart.”

“When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.”

“Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.”

Source : "Adam Driver, boy among girls". Interview with Keely Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 13, 2012.

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”

“In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.”

“No offence to Nicki Minaj, but her career has essentially been a Lil’ Kim tribute”

“Nature always levies her tribute.”

Source : Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.325, Xist Publishing

“I volunteer!" I gasp. "I volunteer as tribute!”

“Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?”