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- You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.
- Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey, Season 2, Episode 9, 2010
- It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?
- Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey, Season 2, Episode 1, 2010
- I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.
- Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey, Season 2, Episode 9, 2010
- Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Speech, New York, September 9, 1912
- A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech in praise of Robert Frost, 1963
- A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than by a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact.
- Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
- It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson
- The true trophy hunter is a self-disciplined perfectionist seeking a single animal, the ancient patriarch well past his prime that is often an outcast from his own kind... If successful, he will enshrine the trophy in a place of honor. This is a more noble and fitting end than dying on some lost and lonely ledge where the scavengers will pick his bones, and his magnificent horns will weather away and be lost forever.
- Elgin Gates, Trophy Hunter in Asia
- Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.
- John Foster Dulles
- Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
- Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989), A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
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