They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for
himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judgment
and iron will; but they love him most for the enemies he has
made.
General Edward Stuyvesant Bragg
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BILLY BRAGG Protest music was prematurely declared to be unfashionable, BILLY BRAGG Mermaid Avenue Vol. II, BILLY BRAGG The thing about Strummer was he walked it like he talked it, ... He didn't cop out. He didn't show o... BILLY BRAGG And since September 11 and the war with Iraq, I think people are more attuned to music that's got so... BILLY BRAGG They were the true inheritors of the mantle of The Clash. BILLY BRAGG Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had. BILLY BRAGG I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disrega... MELVYN BRAGG Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District. MELVYN BRAGG It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy -... MELVYN BRAGG I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philh... MELVYN BRAGG That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. 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You cannot make political music in a ... BILLY BRAGG And just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find so... BILLY BRAGG I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportun... BILLY BRAGG I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it ... MELVYN BRAGG The revolution is just a T-shirt away. - Waiting for the Great Leap Forward BILLY BRAGG This is our showpiece this season, we're tickled. GARY BRAGG Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an... MELVYN BRAGG I'm a class mongrel. MELVYN BRAGG Welcome to what we're calling 'I'll Be Your Bobby Tonight'. BILLY BRAGG But I hope that I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bo... RICK BRAGG The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other... MELVYN BRAGG In the Mountains, they cooked, too. Joe Godwin made liquor in Muscadine. Moe Shealey made it in... RICK BRAGG People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant. RICK BRAGG More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal. MELVYN BRAGG Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage tro... BILLY BRAGG I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to beli... MELVYN BRAGG The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a yea... MELVYN BRAGG A lot of people broke their arms on these cranks; it's similar to what was used on early cars. GARY BRAGG Maybe a few dozen are left. GARY BRAGG This is Cat history. Compared to the feeding and caring of horses, this was wonderful. GARY BRAGG We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it. BILLY BRAGG That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world.... BILLY BRAGG My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing. BILLY BRAGG My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter. BILLY BRAGG Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go ... BILLY BRAGG In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved... BILLY BRAGG I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters fro... BILLY BRAGG I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at al... BILLY BRAGG I try and write honestly about what I see around me now. BILLY BRAGG I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come... 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BILLY BRAGG If no one seems to understand Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman - ... BILLY BRAGG Passion is something you really don't miss, after it has cooled. It is like looking at an empty bott... RICK BRAGG The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and... RICK BRAGG One: Don't kill yourself. Two: Don't kill each other. Three: Try hard not to kill nobody e... RICK BRAGG These were people who remembered the weight of the cotton sack, people with grease under their finge... RICK BRAGG Leaves from the vine, Falling so slow Like fragile tiny shells Drifting in the foam GENERAL IROH Alberta has long been seen as a mecca of opportunity, with hard-working and independently- minded pe... GOVERNOR GENERAL On behalf of the people of Canada , I sincerely thank the residents of Hartley Bay, who, without kno... 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SIR WILLIAM BRAGG The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found... WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin... SIR WILLIAM BRAGG God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them b... SIR WILLIAM BRAGG God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them b... WILLIAM BRAGG SR. When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules ... WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand time... WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG I've often been impressed with a girl Who could sing for her supper - and breakfast as well WILLIAM BRAGG SR. The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin... WILLIAM BRAGG SR. [Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their poi... WILLIAM LAWRENCE BRAGG I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contac... WILLIAM LAWRENCE BRAGG The person of wisdom is the person of years. EDWARD The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children. EDWARD Some follow ideas. Others think of them. EDWARD Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their result... GENERAL GEORGE PATTON I shall return. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of governmental power. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very
destructiveness on both friend and foe has... GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead fo... GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the
conquered.) GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH Victory is a thing of the will. GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished. GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH To the victors belong the spoils. (The spoils to the victors.) GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON If the Lord should once more give us sunshine and I do not give you enough fighting, I will never as... GENERAL JOHN STARK It is certain that the two World Wars in which I have participated would not have occurred had we be... GENERAL GEORGE PATTON Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all tha... GENERAL GEORGE PATTON There's only one proper way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet, of the l... GENERAL GEORGE PATTON I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enem... GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has... GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on ... GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Fatigue makes cowards of us all. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patrio... GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to... GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have nev... GENERAL GEORGE PATTON It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, sayi... GENERAL GEORGE PATTON A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldie... GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR A Prayer For My SonBuild me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and br... GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst of Evils. GENERAL JOHN STARK Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to di... GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON If a man has done his best, what else is there? GENERAL GEORGE PATTON You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- ... GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR You are remembered for the rules you break. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anyth... GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patri... GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR I feel very proud, even though they didn't elect me, to be President of the Argentines. GENERAL LEOPOLDO GALTIERI Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingen... GENERAL GEORGE PATTON We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON There's no security on this earth, only opportunity. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Always do more than is required of you. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence). GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH In war there is no substitute for victory. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Americans never quit. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the
army, even before the turn of the ... GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology with... GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we
who fail to prevent them must s... GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology with... GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to
death. GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect
plan executed next week. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and ... GENERAL GEORGE PATTON I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the
engine inside of me which is pounding, sa... GENERAL GEORGE PATTON Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of
victory. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it
possible.
[Fr., Les souvenirs embell... GENERAL ENRICO CIALDINI Experts often possess more data than judgment. GENERAL COLIN POWELL You don't know what you can get away with until you try. GENERAL COLIN POWELL